Friedrich Nietzsche

(112 votes)   Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(111 votes)   As regards the celebrated ''struggle for life,'' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(111 votes)   Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(110 votes)   What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(102 votes)   ''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(101 votes)   Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(101 votes)   One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(99 votes)   So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(96 votes)   The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(95 votes)   He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(93 votes)   Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(92 votes)   All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(91 votes)   Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(89 votes)   He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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(89 votes)   To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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