Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

German - Philosopher October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900 Read full biography

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

God Death Shadow Water

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Live Suffering Survive Find Meaning

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself Struggle You Lonely

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Learning Day Dance Fly

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

You Long Back Enough

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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You Way Your Only

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

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Thoughts Shadows Feelings Always Our

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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Friendship Love Marriage Unhappy

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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Today Truth Tomorrow You

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.

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Marriage Yourself Age Believe

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life Live Why He Bear

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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Think Youth Way Corrupt

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

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Thoughts Understand Debate Heat

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Friendship Love Eyes Love Is Blind

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

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Man Woman True Play

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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Love Relationship Madness Always

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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Time Truth Power Things

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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Revenge Impossible Someone Without

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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Insanity Something Rare Rule

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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People Heaven Missing Interesting

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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People Problem Know Head

And 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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Day Truth Laugh Lost

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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Thoughts Great Walking Truly

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

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Night Think Suicide Bad

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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Power Blame Praise Only

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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Life Music Mistake Without Would

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