Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.”
“Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.”
“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.”
“The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.”
“I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.”
“Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.”
“Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.”
“Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?”
Source: Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Philosophical writings
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.”
“I no longer want to walk on worn soles.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals
“I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“This world is the will to power and nothing besides!”
Source: Twilight of the Idols