Top 51 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who is known for his wisdom, here is a collection of Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes from his life.

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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes


“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

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“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”

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

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

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“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

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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.”

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“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.””

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“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

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“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”

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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

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“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

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“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it, one gets through many a dark night.”

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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

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“He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.”

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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

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

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“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.”

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“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”

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“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”

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“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”

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“Man is the cruelest animal.”

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“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

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“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”

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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

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“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

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“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.”

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“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

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“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

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“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

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“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

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

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“Without forgetting it, let us become ignorant of it, so as to feel it: there are periods in history when the actual fate of all things that have become customary, that is, of all things, is inevitably shattering and when, however, nothing is lost and when the harvest time seems as if it had yet to come.”

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“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”

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“I am not a man, I am dynamite.”

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“The doer alone learneth.”

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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

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“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

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“Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man’s?”

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“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

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“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

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“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

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“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon, you exorcise the best thing in you.”

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