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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep — into the evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Struggle, Dark, Men
"The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Haste, Leisure
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

The free man is a warrior.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Independent, Warrior, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

Friedrich Nietzsche
New Beginnings, Order, Rooms
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.166, U of Nebraska Press

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Understood

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, Best Friend, Marriage
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Music, Mistake
1889 Die Go« tzen-Da«mmerung ( Twilight of the Idols, translated by R J Hollingdale)

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Praying, Bless

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Opponents, Virtue, Absence
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Despise, Esteem, Stills

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Suicide, Night, Thinking

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Warrior, Soldier, May
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.53, e-artnow

My genius is in my nostrils.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Genius
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.326, Vintage

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Work, Men, Higher
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Humility, New Beginnings, Character

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Pride, Men

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing, Thinking, Communicate
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Honesty, Soul, Cynicism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.228, Modern Library

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mind, Causes, Inconvenience
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.277, Modern Library

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Matter, Complacency

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Purpose, Void

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Feelings, Wish
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Friedrich Nietzsche
Overcoming, Life Is, Again And Again

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Steps, Morality, Ends
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.273, Modern Library

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Kindness, Character, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.163, Courier Corporation

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