Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

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Love, too, has to be learned. — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value."This unconditional — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible sh — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very r — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessiti — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashame — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain. — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalesce — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pret — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death! — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow pro — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, anot — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science