Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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653 Quotes on Love, Friendship, and the Intricacies of Human Relationships

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”

“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”

“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”

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

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”

“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”

“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

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

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”

“The pure soul is a pure lie.”

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

“I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.”

“Every one who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Success has always been a great liar”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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