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Beyond Good and Evil quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Is not life a hundred times too short for us—to bore ourselves?” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Poets act shamelessly towards their experiences: they exploit them.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“It is not sufficient to use the same words in order to understand one another: we must also employ the same words for the same kind of internal experiences, we must in the end have experiences IN COMMON.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Industrious races find it a great hardship to be idle: it was a master stroke of English instinct to hallow and begloom Sunday to such an extent that the Englishman unconsciously hankers for his week—and work-day again” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“There is an innocence of admiration: it is possessed by him to whom it has not yet occurred that he himself may be admired some day.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“By means of music the very passions enjoy themselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“To talk much about oneself may also be a means of concealing oneself. ” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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