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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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

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Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.

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Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

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Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of culture, which h...

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Man is the cruelest animal.

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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