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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic whose work has profoundly influenced Western philosophy and intellectual history. Known for bold ideas about morality, religion, and the human condition, Nietzsche challenged conventional thinking with concepts like the "will to power" and the "Übermensch."

“The doer alone learneth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Alone

All Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good

“'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men

“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

God

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

“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.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Age

“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.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth

“Woman was God's second mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“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

Good

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Strength

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge

“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great

“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love