Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche (243)

Birth:	15th October, 1844
Death:	25th August, 1900
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Composer, Critic, Philologist, Philosopher, Poet

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  The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger and play dice with death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Devotion, Danger

• Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Life, Love

• It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Inspirational
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  …Throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Monster, Alive

• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Life
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  I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Darkness, Afraid

• One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Love

• Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Truth

• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Inspirational

• He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Inspirational

• We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Life

• A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Truth

• one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Truth

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Love

• It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinion, Remembering

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Love

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing