“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“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
Source: The Philosophy of Nietzsche
“Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche