Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

German poet and philosopher

Alive from: 1844-1900

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) | CountryDuits

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  He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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  Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

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  ''To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.

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  A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

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  All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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  Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

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  A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

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  A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

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  After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

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  Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

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  A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

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  Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

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  Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

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  Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

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  "Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.