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Biography : German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Quotes

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

life

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

love

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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 Wilhelm Nietzsche

life

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

pain

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

truth

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

life

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn /

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

truth

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

time

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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