Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”

“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

“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”

“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.”

“the lie is a condition of life.”

“Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.”

“What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?”

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

“Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.”

“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”

“It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.”

“Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.”

“How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?”

“To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”

“One has to know the size of one's stomach.”

“The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.”

“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”

“Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.”

“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.”

“Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.”

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”

“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”

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

“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.”

“Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

“The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”

“It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.”

“I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.”

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.”

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.”

“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”

“it is only as anthat existence and the world are eternally.”

“The final reward of the dead - to die no more”

“The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.”

“i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.”

“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?… Third question for the conscience.”

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

“Every word is a prejudice.”

“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”

“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”