Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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• We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

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• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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  Topics in Religion

• Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

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• To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

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• To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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• To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

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• To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

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• Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

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• Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

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• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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• There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

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• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Philosophy, Deepest

• There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

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• There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

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• There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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• There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

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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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