Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Women’s modesty generally increases with their beauty.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Woman was God’s second mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The True Man wants 2 things: DANGER & PLAY. For that reason he wants Woman, as the Most Dangerous Plaything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ascetic one who makes a necessity of virtue.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is a vice?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Only sick music makes money today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is not consolation. It is light.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power thereto in his own hell.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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