Friedrich Nietzsche

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Art is the proper task of life."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"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."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Art raises its head where creeds relax."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The doer alone learneth."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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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."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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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."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Fear is the mother of morality."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Love is blind friendship closes its eyes."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"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."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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"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?"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Woman was God's second mistake."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"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."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Success has always been a great liar."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Friedrich Nietzsche