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Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

When one has not had a good father one must create one.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

There are no facts only interpretations.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of ones life.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Only sick music makes money today.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Belief in form but disbelief in content - thats what makes an aphorism charming.

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.