Quotes about Nietzsche

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs — he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance — one cannot fly into flying.
You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound. — P.G. Wodehouse, Carry on, Jeeves
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to — Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way — and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves — and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…
Your educators can only be your liberators. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign — Friedrich Nietzsche
A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and I — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subj — Friedrich Nietzsche
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche? — John Fante, Ask the Dust
Man does not strive for happiness — only the Englishman does that.
The final reward of the dead - to die no more — Friedrich Nietzsche
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes — one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man int — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's disinherited, of thos — Julius Evola
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Friedrich Nietzsche