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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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“But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes & Facts
Tagged: Self-awareness, Self-Confidence
“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
Tagged: Truth, Never Know The Truth, Don’t Let It All Through, Quote of the Moment, Harsh Reality
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Tagged: Lonely, Sadness, Helping other, Compassion, kindness, Empathy
“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)
Tagged: Being Genuine, Relationships
“Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are
Tagged: Work Processes, Creativity, Making Art, Ethics of Building Great Things, Create In Movement/Air
“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)
Tagged: Beautiful Thoughts, Human Beauty, Existence of Human
“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
Tagged: Search for Meaning, Life Quotes, Changes
“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
Tagged: Intoxication, Art
“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Tagged: deep thinker, Over Thinker, Over Thinking, Thinking, Deep Insights, Thinker
“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
Tagged: Escapism, Poetry, Forest, Sea
“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
Tagged: Love, Loved, Importance, Self-Worth
“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims
Tagged: Loneliness
“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
Tagged: Presence, Absence, Solitude, Companion
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Tagged: Living, Suffering
“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: Human Emotions
“My desire and my need are different — I hardly know how to say it or explain it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche
Tagged: Self-awareness, Desire, Need
“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
Tagged: Change, Change of mind, Uncertainty, vulnerability, Examples of Metaphor
“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
Tagged: Youth, Corruption, Thinking, Mindset
“For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters
Tagged: Tired, Tired Of Being Tired, Tiredness, weary, Weariness, Exhausted, exhausting, moment, present moment, the now, present, Life, Living
“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Tagged: Existence, Existentialism, Art
“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
Tagged: Thoughts, Feelings, Dark Thoughts
“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
Tagged: Aloneness, alone time, Solitude, solitary, Alone In Thoughts, Thinking, solitary enjoyment
“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)
Tagged: Love, Connection, Relationship, Heartless, Ashamed
“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)
Tagged: Self-awareness, Self-assurance, Law
“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)
Tagged: Readiness, Bravery, strength, Falling Apart
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche
Tagged: Alone, Solitude, solitary, Want, Isolation, Nature
“Only where there are graves are there resurrections.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Resurrection, Inspirational, Failure
“We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“The man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
Tagged: Artistic Sensibility, Art, Existence, reality of existence, Life
“You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, azquotes
Tagged: Deep, Positive Thoughts
“I have found it necessary to remain silent.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, via The Nietzsche Channel
Tagged: Silence
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes & Facts
Tagged: Thoughts, possibilities, Thinking, Life, Change
“Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Tagged: Struggle
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, via GoodReads
Tagged: Poetic, argument
“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Lou Salomé
Tagged: romance
“The demand to be loved is the greatest kind of arrogance.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human All Too Human
Tagged: Love, Arrogance
“You have no idea what a charming memory you are to me.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters
Tagged: Love
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, A quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Tagged: Reality, Scared, People, Truth
“If you can’t love yourself, I guess that’s it then.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche
Tagged: Love, Self-Love
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