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“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“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?”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Woman was God’s second mistake.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

“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 book Human, All Too Human

“They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Success has always been a great liar”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Birth of Tragedy