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 Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.

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Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomo...

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Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from the...

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One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perha...

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Love, too, has to be learned.

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The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

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Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time that someone else. Hours ...

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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

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Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

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And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

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Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

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It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he is an artist in divining a great deal from the little that he h...

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Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and phi...

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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvat...

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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

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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