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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."

“I love those who do not know how to live for today.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

All Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“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

Art

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Best

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Time

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom

“Woman was God's second mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith

“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

Experience

“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

Good

“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“Success has always been a great liar.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience