Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Life
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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
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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.
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All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.
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What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
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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 rare species.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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Thinking evil is making evil.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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The lie is a condition of life.
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If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
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one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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