50 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes You Should Memorize Before Your Next Date With A Hipster

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.”

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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

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“I rebel against the translation of reality into a morality: therefore I abhor Christianity with a deadly hatred.”

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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

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“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness.”

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“Seeing that I must shortly approach mankind with the heaviest demand that has ever been made on it, it seems to me indispensable to say who I am.”

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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

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“Every error, of whatever kind, is a consequence of degeneration of instinct, disgregation of will: one has thereby virtually defined the bad. Everything good is instinct – and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.”

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“In all these things — in the choice of nutrition, of climate and locality, of recreation — an instinct of self-preservation is in command, expressing itself most unambiguously as an instinct of self-defense. Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one — first act of pruden…”

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“The influence of climate on the metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration goes so far that a mistake in climate or locality may not only alienate a person from his task, it can withhold him from it altogether: he never gets a look at it.”

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“Sit as little as possible; give credence to no thought that is not born in the open air and accompanied by free movement — in which the muscles do not also celebrate a feast.”

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“A few more indications of my morality. A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too light. The whole stomach working, the first condition for a good digestion. You must know the size of your stomach.”

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“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

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“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but always only what he thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he educates.”

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“On this road lies the future of the highest men: to bear the greatest responsibility and not collapse under it.”

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“I find it tasteless to be familiar.”

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“Philosophy, as I have understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains: a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has been excommunicated by morality.”

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“I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that.”

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“1. Do you want to be more multifarious or simpler? 2. Do you want to become happier or more indifferent to happiness and unhappiness? 3. Do you want to become more contented with oneself or more exacting and inexorable? 4. Do you want to become softer, more yielding, more human, or more inhuman? 5.…”

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“It is mythology to think that forces obey laws.”

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“My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, wit…”

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“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons, but indispensable as temporary cures.”

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“Christianity is still possible at any time. It is not tied to any dogma. It requires neither the doctrine of a personal God, nor that of sin, nor that of immortality, nor that of redemption, nor that of faith. Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tell us how to act, not what we…”

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“Here is a little ideal I stumble upon once every five weeks on a wild and lonely walk, in an azure moment of sinful happiness. To spend one’s life amid delicate and absurd things; a stranger to reality; half an artist, half a bird and metaphysician; with no care for reality.”

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“The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.”

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“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! A doctrine is needed powerful enough to work as a breeding agent: strengthening the strong, paralyzing and destructive for the world-weary. The annihilation of the decaying races... Dominion over the earth as a means of producing the higher…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com