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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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example.

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No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives. The fatality of his nature cannot be disentangled from the fatality of all that which has been and wi...

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But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no desire to become any of these; it is by no means str...

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There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

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Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

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Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and nature, fourth he continually invented new table...

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Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling is and remains that man is the free being in a world of unfreedom, the external miracle worker ...

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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

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L’homme cherche un principe au nom duquel il puisse mépriser l’homme ; il invente un autre monde pour pouvoir calomnier et salir ce monde-ci ; en fait, il ne saisit jamais que le néant et fait de ce néant un « Dieu », une « vérité » appe...

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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole…But nothing exists...

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Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of ...

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

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We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for...

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For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write

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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

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if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

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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