Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Quotes

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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love

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

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
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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 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?
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life

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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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.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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The doer alone learneth.
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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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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.
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There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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pain

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

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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life

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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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.
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truth

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

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