Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

About Friedrich Nietzsche:

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, composer, and Latin and Greek scholar. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor and irony.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

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Author Bio

  • NameFriedrich Nietzsche
  • DescriptionGerman philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
  • BornOctober 15, 1844
  • DiedAugust 25, 1900
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Linguist; Poet; Writer; Composer; Educationist; Classical Philologist