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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

German poet and philosopher

Lived from: 1844 - 1900

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagGermany

Born: 15 october 1844 Died: 25 august 1900

  • A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
  • Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
  • He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
  • 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.
  • Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
  • Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
  • 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.
  • Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
  • Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
  • The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
  • The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
  • Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
  • Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
  • I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
  • Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
  • Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.
  • It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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  • Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
    Original: Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Lügen.
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  • No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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  • Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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  • The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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  • War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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