Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The demand to be loved is the greatest kind of arrogance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human All Too Human

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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

— Friedrich Nietzsche, via GoodReads

Poetic argument

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You have no idea what a charming memory you are to me.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters

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From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Lou Salomé

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Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Resurrection Inspirational Failure

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Always love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Love Loving Loved love more than you are loved let be loved more than you deserve Deserve More Inspirational

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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

Artistic Sensibility Art Existence reality of existence Life

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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, azquotes

Deep Positive Thoughts

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Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

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If you can’t love yourself, I guess that’s it then.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche

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The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Reality Imagination Small world Expectation

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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes & Facts

Thoughts possibilities Thinking Life Change

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I have found it necessary to remain silent.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, via The Nietzsche Channel

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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, A quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality Scared People Truth

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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, A quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Tiredness Ideas realization Remembering

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit… He that writes with blood and proverbs does not want to be read, but learned by heart. In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route you must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Aphorisms Writing Write with Blood

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A few more indications of my morality. A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too light. The whole stomach working, the first condition for a good digestion. You must know the size of your stomach.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

metabolism Philosophy

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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

Work Processes Creativity Making Art Ethics of Building Great Things Create In Movement/Air

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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human All Too Human

Marrying Somebody Relationship Advice Communication is Key

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All prejudices emanate from the bowels. – Sitting still – is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

Prejudice Great Sins resentment Indignation

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Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of my own moods, I am never far; my thoughts always circle around you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

Love Thoughts poem Letters Love & Relationships

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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Philosophy How To Think The Art of Awareness

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