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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

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

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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 Wilhelm Nietzsche

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil /

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

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