“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.”
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“Man is something that is to be surpassed.”
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
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy
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
Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
““Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?”
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.”
“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.”
“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”
“The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.”
“Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.”
“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.”
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”