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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

1844–1900 Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.

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Also known as: Friedric Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Friedrich, Ecce Homo, Neitzsche

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It is not the struggle of opinions that has made history so violent, but rather the struggle of belief in opinions, that is, the struggle of convictions.

How nicely the bitch, sensuality, knows how to beg for a piece of spirit when denied a piece of meat.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

In Christianity neither morality nor religion has even a single point of contact with reality.

The AntiChrist (1888)

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear."

Twilight of the Idols : or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1888)

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

There exists a right by which we take a man's life but none by which we take from him his death: this is mere cruelty.

The embarrassment after the anger is biggest humiliation a person can experience.

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.

The Wanderer and his Shadow (1880)

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Let the value of all things be posited newly by you.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted – by marriage.

Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

The Brahmin is an object of worship for the gods.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Against boredom even the gods contend in vain.

And to repeat it again: vanity is an atavism.

Wherever the industrial spirit has triumphed over the military and aristocratic spirit, woman now aspires to the economic and legal self-reliance of a clerk.

Jenseits von Gut und Böse (1886)

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