Friedrich Nietzsche the Philosopher, biography, facts and quotes

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

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger"

"Art raises its head where creeds relax"

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

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

"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"

"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child"

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication"

"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"

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

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it"

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

"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance"

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes"

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy"

"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame"

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you"

"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you"

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

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

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species"

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders"

"The lie is a condition of life"

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman"

"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect"

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid"

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive"

"Art is the proper task of life"

"Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities"

"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms"

"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies"

"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters"

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages"

"Fear is the mother of morality"

"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons"

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies"

"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had"

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy"

"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"

"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"

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross"

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything"

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently"

"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw"

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception"

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

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

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

Born as	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Occup.	Philosopher
From	Germany
Born	October 15, 1844 Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia
Died	August 25, 1900 Weimar, Saxony, German Empire
Aged	55 years

Friedrich Nietzsche Biography

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