Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophical Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.”

Friendship Faults Becoming

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.”

Knowing Knowledge Opinion

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Philosophical

“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”

Truth Existentialism Shallow

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“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.”

Mean Philosophy Evil

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Philosophical

“Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.”

Mad Smell Idols

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“We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.”

Opportunity Justice Judgement

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“It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.”

Matter Numbers Influential

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“Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.”

Evil Power Degrees

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“Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

Men Fate Bridges

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Philosophical

“We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.”

Fun Philosophical Serious

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“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.”

Children Death

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“In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.”

Praise Blame

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Friedrich Nietzsche — Philosophical Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes