1844-1900, German Philosopher
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Asceticism]
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Marriage]
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Strategies]
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 – [Creativity]
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Equality]
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Future]
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Sincerity]
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Wisdom]
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Ideals and Idealism]
The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Disability]
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Absurdity]
The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Lies and Lying]
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Friends and Friendship]
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Sports]
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Truth]
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Lies and Lying]
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Spirit and Spirituality]
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished — it is no longer secure in its instincts.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Politicians and Politics]
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Philosophers and Philosophy]
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche – [Technology]
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