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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Nietzsche- Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Tagged: Reality, Imagination, Small world, Expectation
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
“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
Tagged: Aphorisms, Writing, Write with Blood
“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
Tagged: Marrying Somebody, Relationship Advice, Communication is Key
“All prejudices emanate from the bowels. – Sitting still – is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
Tagged: Prejudice, Great Sins, resentment, Indignation
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Tagged: Extremism, Extreme Points of View
“What makes Heroic? To face simultaneously one’s greatest suffering and one’s highest hope.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Tagged: Heroic, Heroic definition, Bravery, Courage, Living, surviving, Life, Living Boldly
“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
Tagged: Love, Thoughts, poem, Letters, Love & Relationships
“To find everything profound—that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Eye, Profound Seeing, Seeing the Profound, Thought Catalog, Create Difference
“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Clarity, Defining Quality, Obscurity, Timid, How To Write, Writing Strategies
“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons, but indispensable as temporary cures.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Idealism, Ambition Is Poison, The Power of Now
“I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: The Power of Ego, Thought Catalog or Nietzsche?, Your Value
“Philosophy, as I have understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains: a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has been excommunicated by morality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I am So Wise (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: No Ethics, Philosophy, Think Different, Screw Ethics
“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but always only what he thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he educates.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Education, Truth In A Passing Contextual Moment, Relationalism
“Seeing that I must shortly approach mankind with the heaviest demand that has ever been made on it, it seems to me indispensable to say who I am.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: first lines of books
“I dance after you, I follow wherever your traces linger. Where are you? Give me your hand! Or only one finger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Dancing, Nietzche, Poetry, Women
“Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Consciousness, Evolution, Next Steps, Push, Unfinished Mind
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