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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Discovery, Self, Treasure

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Character, Creative

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Understanding, Gone, World

Man is the cruelest animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Animal, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.169, Algora Publishing

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgotten, Illusion
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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Friedrich Nietzsche
Want, Embarrassed
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Inspirational, Inspiring
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Light, People, Forever

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Teacher, Pain, Doubt

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Needs, Shame, Ashamed

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tone, Opinion, Argument

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Taken, Important, Selfishness

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Followers, Meaningless

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, Dance, Education
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Discipline, Humanity

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Slave, Mankind, All Time
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.150, Courier Corporation

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Poet
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.64, Modern Library

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother, Children, New Beginnings

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Independent, Live For The Day
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.333, Penguin

Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Freedom, Enemy, Politics
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Play, Serious

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Easy, Instinct, Goodness

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.112, Penguin

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Men, Heaven

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, Joy, Suffering

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