122 quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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“'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“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

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“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 Nietzsche

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“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Love is not consolation. It is light.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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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.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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