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

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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

“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
― Fredrich Nietzsche

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Only sick music makes money today.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.
Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche