Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.”
Source: Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.”
“Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
“Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.”
Source: The Antichrist
“Every past is worth condemning.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: The Antichrist
“In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.”
Source: A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.”
“The strongest have their moments of fatigue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: The Antichrist (上帝之死)
“There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!”
“At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
“You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking”
“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: The Gay Science
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy