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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Birthname

AKA Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Birthday October 15, 1844

Birthplace RÃ¶cken , Saxony, Prussia

Death August 25, 1900

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Educated At University Of Bonn

Nationality German, Statelessness, Kingdom Of Prussia

Occupations Educationist, French Moralists, Music Critic, Linguist, University Teacher

Religion Atheist

Total quotes (114)

It might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the ‘truth’ one could still barely endure.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good & Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Truth Never Know The Truth Don’t Let It All Through Quote of the Moment

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But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes & Facts

Self-awareness Self-Confidence

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Lonely Sadness Helping other Compassion kindness Empathy

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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Intoxication Art

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People think that the world itself is overflowing with beauty, but they forget that they are its cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Beautiful Thoughts Human Beauty Existence of Human

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It is precisely he who is becoming who cannot endure the state of becoming.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, Revised Edition

Search for Meaning Life Quotes Changes

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You can see that I have become so candid that I can endure only human relationships which are absolutely genuine. I avoid half-friendships...

— Friedrich Nietzsche, To Mathilde Maier (Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche)

Being Genuine Relationships

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My desire and my need are different — I hardly know how to say it or explain it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

Self-awareness Desire Need

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, via www.goodreads.com

Living Suffering

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Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Hackett Classics)

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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims

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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, via www.goodreads.com

Presence Absence Solitude Companion

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Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love. To lose myself for a while.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Escapism Poetry Forest Sea

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But let this be your honour: always to love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Love Loved Importance Self-Worth

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Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

deep thinker Over Thinker Over Thinking Thinking Deep Insights Thinker

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day

Youth Corruption Thinking Mindset

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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, via www.goodreads.com

Existence Existentialism Art

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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Thoughts Feelings Dark Thoughts

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I felt the most burning desire for once to be quite alone with my thoughts for a little while.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

Aloneness alone time Solitude solitary Alone In Thoughts Thinking solitary enjoyment

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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)

Love Connection Relationship Heartless Ashamed

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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche on Facebook

Death Change Change of mind Uncertainty vulnerability

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I am a law only of mine own, I am not a law for all. This - is now my way, - where is yours?

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)

Self-awareness Self-assurance Law

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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you become new if you haven’t first become ashes?

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics)

Readiness Bravery strength Falling Apart

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche

Alone Solitude solitary Want Isolation Nature

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