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"43 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes & Sayings

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Born: October 15, 1844 Died: August 25, 1900 | Philosopher | Poet | Philologist |

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Truth Illusion Destroy Hear
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Art Creeds Head Raises
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Father Illusion Love Matches
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Ashamed Author Become Best
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art Beautiful Beautiful Art Essence
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Also Condemn Everything Pardon
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Chosen Goal Many Path
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Because Evils Hope Man
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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Established An Fact Interpretation
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Future Influences Just Just As Much
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Come Conscience Credibility Evidence
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Certain Character Determined Experiences
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Anything Away Cannot Either
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friendship Lack Love Makes
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Convictions Dangerous Foes Lies
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Individual Morality Instinct Herd
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Because Cause Cease Faithful
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
About Also Conceal Means
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Able Also Enemies Friends
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Cannot Climb Dance Day
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Feeling Good Heightens Itself
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When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Create Father Good Good Father
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Forget Form Purpose One's
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Body Deepest More Philosophy
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Conceived Great Thoughts Truly
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Alongside Art Conquest Imitation
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Heaven Interesting Interesting People Missing
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Without music, life would be a mistake.

Life Mistake Music Without
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Alone Best Deeply Had
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Bad Christian Find Made
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Cure Love Pair Person
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Ah Frequent Higher Highs
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Determine Future Ground Hierarchy
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Art is the proper task of life.

Art Life Proper Task
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Bore Life Ourselves Short
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Able Age Ask Believe
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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Another Each Gets His
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Boldly Indignant Lies Man
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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.

Able Climb Either Higher
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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.

Always Bad Cooking Education
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Become Bore Care Fights
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Better Blessed Blunders Even
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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Art Die Order Truth
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes & Sayings