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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: The Philosophy of Nietzsche
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Without passions you have no experience whatever.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: What Nietzsche Taught
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.”
Source: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two