Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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• What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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• What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

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• What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

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• What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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• What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

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• We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

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Friedrich Nietzsche (312)

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

About

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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