Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

BioData:

 

• Dob: 15 October 1844,
• Died: 25 August 1900 (aged 55),
• was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and composer
• Latin & Greek scholar
• Era: 19th century philosophy
• Region: Western philosophy
• School: Weimar classicism; precursor to continental philosophy, existentialism, postmodernism, post-structuralism

Notable work &  ideas:

• Apollonian and Dionysian,
• Death of God,
• eternal recurrence,
• master-slave morality,
• Übermensch,
• herd instinct,
• ressentiment,
• transvaluation of values,
• perspectivism, (e.g. Truth is the product of a person’s perspective)
• will to power,
• der letzte
• Mensch,
• amor fati,
• Bejahung,
• tschandala
  Souce: Wikipedia

The Mind of Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.
– Nietzsche
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A joke is an epigram on death of a feeling.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
– Nietzsche</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">(He had a sense of humour – LOL)</p>

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<p style="text-align: left;">At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
– Friedrich Nietzsche</p>

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Belief in truth begins with doubts of all truths in which one has previously believed.
– Nietzsche
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Books for general reading always smell badly. The odour of the common people hangs about them.
– Nietzsche
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Do not let yourself be deceived: great intellects are sceptical.
– Nietzsche
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God is a comedian, performing for an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
– Nietzsche
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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
– Nietzsche

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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is not consolation. It is light.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.
– Nietzsche

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“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
~Nietzsche

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“The command ‘become hard! the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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That which does not kill us make us stronger.

– Nietzsche

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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
– Nietzsche

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
– Nietzsche

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

– Nietzsche

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Those who are very beautiful, very good and very powerful scarcely ever learn the truth about anything. In their presence we involuntarily lie.
– Nietzsche

The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
– Nietzsche

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The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
– Nietzsche

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There is no beast without cruelty.

– Nietzsche

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The true man wants two things; danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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The last Christian died on the Cross.
– Nietzsche

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle.  Leaving out the third case:  one must be both – a philosopher.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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The future influences the present just as much as the past.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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We have art in order not to die of the truth.
– Nietzsche

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‘‘ We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.’’
– Nietzsche

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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

~Friedrich Nietzche
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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
~Nietzsche

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Woman was God’s second blunder.
– Nietzsche

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

– Nietzsche

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
– Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
– Friedrich Nietzsche