Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-10-15 – 1900-08-25) was a German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.
Found 139 thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?
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The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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