Inspirational Quotes

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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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Desire Discipline Self-Control Temptation It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Depth Meaning Truth Understanding Wisdom It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Direction Focus Purpose To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Critique Institutions Religion Suppression Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Ambition What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Admiration Humility Innocence There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

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

Fulfillment Life Living Time Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friendship Joy Relationship Suffering Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Afterlife Individuality Perspective Wit In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Conscience Expectation Responsibility Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Life Music Without music, life would be a mistake.

Action Experience Learning The doer alone learneth.

Equality Hate Perception Value We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Accuracy Antiquity Historical Value Modern Reading Writings A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Competence Effectiveness Problem Solving Wisdom 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.

Creativity Recognition Simplicity Transformation Value When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Art An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Knowledge Limitation Perception Understanding We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Light Love Love is not consolation. It is light.

Belief Cause and Effect Change Perspective Understanding Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Interpretation Morality There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Authenticity Passion Sincerity Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Corruption Evil Integrity Vigilance 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.

Opportunity Potential Productivity Resourcefulness When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Divinity Humanity Limitation Self-Perception The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Conformity Groupthink Individuality Social Influence When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Art Expression Metaphysics Nature Reality 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.

Indignation Lying No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Endurance Resilience Strength Transformation Willpower I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.