Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
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