Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

• Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

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• The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

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  Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

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• You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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• Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

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• Woman was God’s second mistake.

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• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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• Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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• Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

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• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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• Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

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• Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

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• Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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• Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.

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• When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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• When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

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• When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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• When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

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Birth:	15th October, 1844
Death:	25th August, 1900
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Critic, Philologist, Philosopher, Poet, Professor

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Röcken, Saxony, Germany. He was a German philosopher, critic, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Beginning his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy, he became the youngest-ever occupant of the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at age 24. He was only 24 years old and had neither completed his doctorate nor received a teaching certificate. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leipzig.

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