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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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not withou...

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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

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The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the deepest immersion in oneself and nature. H...

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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever ...

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In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.

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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

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Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationships that fit those of their earlier lives, so that ...

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That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.

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He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

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The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

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Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toil...

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Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

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If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all in this...

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People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

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In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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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