“One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.”
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.”
“In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.”
“He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.”
“We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!”
Source: The Will to Power
“Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.”
Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
“When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.”
“Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.”
“When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.”
“The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.”
“When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.”
“One is punished best for one's virtues.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.”
Source: The Joyful Wisdom
“In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.”
“He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.”
Source: Human, All Too Human, I
“You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.”