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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You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

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Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

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If you know the why, you can live any how.

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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

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Here in this supreme menace of the will, there approaches a redeeming, healing, enchantress—art. She alone can turn these thoughts of repulsion at the horror and absurdity of existence into ideas compatible with life: these are the sublime—the ta...

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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

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When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others--and how many there are!--are driven through surging...

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Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

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He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

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the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

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The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we ...

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Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings ...

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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

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Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

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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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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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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