quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
tags:
humor,
philosophy
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"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— 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."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
tags:
perspective,
truth
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"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
tags:
faith
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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
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
tags:
past,
philosophy
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"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
tags:
religion
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"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'"
— Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)
— Friedrich Nietzsche (The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs)
"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. "
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
tags:
suicide
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When Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche wrote, "From all quartersof the ancient world...from Rome to Babylon, we can point to the existence of ........festivals centered in extravagant licentiousness, whose waves overwhelmed all family life and its venerable traditions; the most savage natural instincts were unleashed, including even that horrible mixture of sensuality and cruelty which has always seemed to me to be the real 'witches' brew'." ....he was speaking of festivals most closely associated with which of these Greek gods?
a. Aphrodite
b. Apollo
c. Demeter
d. Dionysus
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a. Aphrodite
b. Apollo
c. Demeter
d. Dionysus
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