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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Envy, Enemy, Overcoming

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

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Leadership, Excellence, Vision
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.160, Penguin

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

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Inspirational, Believe

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

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Beauty, Winning, Style

One is punished best for one's virtues.

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Punishment, Virtue
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.52, e-artnow

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughtful, Thinking, Loud Voices

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stars, Eye, Long
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lonely, Loneliness, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

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Together, Arches, Want

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Running, Climbing, Flying

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Impossible, Rationality, One Thing
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.172, Penguin

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Poison, Crushed
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.122, Vintage

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Sick, Healthy
Genealogy of Morals Essay 3

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Ignorance, Black
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.70, Booklassic

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Legs, Path
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Father, Lying, Son
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.88, Friederich Nietzsche

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Cost, Pay

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Moving Forward, Trust No One, Inspirational Tattoo
"Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

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Good Friend, Reality, Praise
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.166, Courier Corporation

...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Speak, Heard, Clearness
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Running, Writing, Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Science, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.48, Penguin

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Apes

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sacrifice, Return, Wanted

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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Philosophical, Criminal Mind, Spirituality
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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