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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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

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The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping...

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If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do this an infinite number of times? This should be for you the most solid centre of gravity . . . My doctrine says, the task is to live your life in such...

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Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everyt...

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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enfor...

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To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget. Mirabeau had no m...

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There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

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Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

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Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

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The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one...

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Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a ‘miracle...

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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

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Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy. Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

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In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

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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