100+ Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes & Sayings

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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Art Behave Existence Value Work
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
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Consolation Darkness Night Suicide
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
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One Liner Poison Silence Truth Worse
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Argument Defend Fault Harm Philosophy
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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ContAction Feeling Hands Man Religion Wash
There are no facts, only interpretations.
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FAction One Liner Perspective Truth
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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God Man Mistake
The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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Awakened Beautiful Creep Soul Speak Voice
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Dance Insane Music
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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Conviction DAngry Lying One Liner Truth
Art is the proper task of life.
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Art Inspirational Life One Liner Task
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Believe God Praise Religion Time
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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Believe Causal Faith Insane Prove
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Conceal Oneself Talk
Madness is something rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
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Age Group Individual Madness Party People Rare Rules
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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Climb Dance Fly Inspirational Learning Walk
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Friendship Lack Love Marriage Unhappiness
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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Deep Invent Laugh Life Man Suffering
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Love Reason Roamtic
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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Absolute Eternal FAction One Liner Truth
Man is the cruelest animal.
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Animal Cruel Evil Man One Liner
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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Inspirational Paper Sheet World Writing
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
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Ansence Company Depend exchange People Presence Solitude True
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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Death Deep Inspirational One Liner Skin Snake
Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman – a rope over an abyss.
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Abys Beast Man Overcome Rope
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.
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Climb Dog Ego Funny Humour
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
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Decide Love Man State

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