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That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Twilight of the Idols
God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Die frohliche Wissenschaft
Woman was God's second mistake.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
Man is something to be surpassed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, "Truth Will Have No Other Gods Alongside It"
A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
Against boredom even the gods struggle in vain.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Family Circle Magazine, Aug. 9, 2005
What we experience in dreams -- assuming that we experience it often -- belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
A little health now and again is the ailing person’s best remedy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Wanderer and His Shadow
Great intellects are skeptical.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Antichrist
Christianity came into existence to lighten the heart, but now it needs to burden the heart to start with so it can lighten it afterwards. Consequently, it will perish.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, unpublished fragment, Nov. 1887
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Thus Spake Zarathustra
It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Twilight of the Idols
When stepped on, the worm curls up. That is a clever thing to do. Thus it reduces its chances of being stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, "Maxims and Arrows," Twilight of the Idols
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is -- a vice?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, "Maxims and Arrows," Twilight of the Idols
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All Too Human
The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Joyful Wisdom
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
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