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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'.

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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”

Firsts Eye Individual Sides Cases Habit Judgment Instinct Calm Come Up Command Acquire Calmness Stimulus Schooling Grasping Intellectualism

Book:The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation

Source: The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation

“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.”

Men Should Heart Said Reason Happens Treasure Beehives

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction”

Men Artist Fiction Pieces Creation Philosopher Recognition Great Men Liars Minors Wretched Statesmen Conqueror

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome”

Men Overcoming

Book:Thus spake Zarathustra

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra

“My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”

Self Humanity Overcoming Constant

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.”

Science Death Atheism Remains Knives Wipe Greatness Of God Lanterns God And Science Science God God Is Dead Decomposition

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.”

Light Darkness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.”

Men Should Trying Littles Art Real Feelings Young Artist Pay Risk Worst Taste Gains Fairs Despise Artificial Unconditional Fooled Nuance Young Ones Real Artists Yes And No

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

Running Taste Vanity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who does not lie does not know what truth is.”

Knows Doe Lying Truth Is

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!”

“When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.”

Men Doe Lines Mountain Calm Forests Firm Horizon

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.”

Littles Self Powerful Imagine Philosopher Deception Acknowledge Most Powerful Imagine That Self Deception Opposing Decadence Moralist Promoters

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.”

Hate Company Offers Solitude I Hate Stealing

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).”

Helping Desire Levels Raises Rejoice Craving Belittle Tripping

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

Mind Wells Soul States Feelings Values Attitude Capable Accounts Helpful Honored Usefulness Plenitude

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”

Casts Careful Demon Be Careful

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?”

Ifs Stars Shining

Book:Thus spake Zarathustra

Source: Thus spake Zarathustra

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

Night Dark Darkness Tree Rose Forests Not Afraid Forests And Trees Cypresses Dark Trees

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.”

Needs Hands Wish Poor Too Much Wise Spread Riches Folly Honey Bees Weary Joyous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”

Evil Illusion Good And Evil

Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”

Happens Loses Lines Existence Dangerous Bounds Whatever Happens

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

Educator Liberators

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

Feelings Born Growing Weakness Overcoming Resistance Will Power Antichrist What Is Happiness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”