Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"“I am one thing, my writings are another.”"
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"“I am one thing, my writings are another.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche The Will to Power
"“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
"“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The future influences the present just as much as the past."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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