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“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Beyond Good and Evil
“There is an old illusion—it is called good and evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”
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
“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Beyond Good and Evil
“He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“For man is the cruellest animal.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Your bad love to yourselves maketh solitude a prison to you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Marriage: so call I the will of the twain to create the one that is more than those who created it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Beyond Good and Evil
“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And just look at these men: their eye saith it—they know nothing better on earth than to lie with a woman.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“For this is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. Thus passed with the lonesome one months and years; his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Still am I the richest and most to be envied—I, the lonesomest one!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“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
“I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings, who think themselves good because they have crippled paws!”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Beyond Good and Evil
“Is not life a hundred times too short for us—to bore ourselves?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Beyond Good and Evil
“I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Without music life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Twilight of the Idols
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
The Antichrist
“If ye believed more in life, then would ye devote yourselves less to the momentary.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“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
“I know you. In wickedness the haughty man and the weakling meet. But they misunderstand one another.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offence.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
The Antichrist
“Aristotle says that in order to live alone, a man must be either an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking: a man must be both—a philosopher.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Twilight of the Idols
“The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity.”
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
“man is something that is to be surpassed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“the worst enemy thou canst meet, wilt thou thyself always be”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“this secret spake Life herself unto me . . . 'I am that which must ever surpass itself'. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“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
“By means of music the very passions enjoy themselves.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Beyond Good and Evil
“As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealousy; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Those who live alone do not speak too loud nor write too loud, for they fear the hollow echo”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
The Gay Science
“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
The Gay Science
“Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,—and the people glory in their great men! These are for them the masters of the hour.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it. ”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
Untimely Meditations
“Life —that means for us constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame”
Friedrich Nietzsche
,
The Gay Science
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