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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.”
“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”
Source: Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
“He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.”
“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
“Art raises its head where creeds relax.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.”
“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
“For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.”
“It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”
“When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.”
“Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.”
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.”
“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
“Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
“There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche