Source: The Gay Science
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.”
“Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”
“For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Christianity is called the religion of pity.”
Source: The Antichrist
“I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.”
“One should never know too precisely whom one has married”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.”
Source: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
“Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche
“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
“Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
“Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.”
Source: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche