Quotes by Nietzsche, Friedrich




Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality. Beyond the unique themes dealt with in his works, Nietzsche's powerful style and subtle approach are distinguishing features of his writings. Although largely overlooked during his short working life, which ended with a mental collapse at the age of 44, and frequently misunderstood and misrepresented thereafter, Nietzsche received recognition during the second half of the 20th century as a highly significant figure in modern philosophy. His influence was particularly noted by many existentialist and postmodern philosophers..

"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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"Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude."

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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

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"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."

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"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."

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

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"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

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"Only sick music makes money today."

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"Without music, life would be a mistake."

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"Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs"

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"Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning."

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"Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation."

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"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on obscenity
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"Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."

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"We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them."

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"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."

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"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on paradise
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

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"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."

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"Plato was a bore."

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"Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life."

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"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."

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"Art raises its head where creeds relax."

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"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."

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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

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"In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part."

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"The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue."

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"The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts."

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"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."

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"Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?"

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"So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another."

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"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."

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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."

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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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"All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance."

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"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

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"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

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