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Adversity2 quotes
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1889Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895Decline of religion2 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Existence of God2 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882God2 quotes
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Men and women2 quotes
In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895Morality2 quotes
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1887Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Truth2 quotes
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1888Achieving great things1 quote
Life always gets harder toward the summit-the cold increases, responsibility increases. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895Art1 quote
We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1888Atheism1 quote
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Being in love1 quote
Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895Beliefs1 quote
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878Boredom1 quote
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886Character1 quote
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1889Charting one's own path1 quote
If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads! — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883Christianity1 quote
There was really only one Christian, and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1895Convictions1 quote
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878Creativity1 quote
One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883Dangerous ideas1 quote
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886Death of God1 quote
"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!" — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Destiny1 quote
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our to-day. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878Envy1 quote
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1908Fate1 quote
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our to-day. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878Forgetfulness1 quote
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886Generosity1 quote
This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883Genius1 quote
One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883Great men1 quote
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886Human nature1 quote
God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Inner turmoil1 quote
One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1883