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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

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great

“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men

“Woman was God's second mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“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.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Power

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

“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

Great

“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

Friendship

“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.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth

“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth

“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth

“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Education

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dad