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Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

“Im not upset that you lied to me, Im upset that from now on I cant believe you”

“I have done that, says my memory. I cannot have done that -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.”

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

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”

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

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

“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not”

“Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man”

“Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”

“I should account as the foremost musician one who knew only the sadness of the most profound happiness, and no other sadness at all.”

“What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time ones highest suffering and ones highest hope.”

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood”

“The miserable have no other medicine but hope.”

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”

“Faith means not wanting to know what is true”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”