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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Genius, He Man

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Knowledge, Limits

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, History, Age
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude, Soul, Thanks

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupidity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.448, Courier Corporation

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Race, Progress

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche
May, Way, Tradition
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings, May, Bears
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Doe, Body

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Doe, Common
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Blame, Praise

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Light, Flying, Want

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Friedrich Nietzsche
House, Experience, Way
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.413, Modern Library

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Mean, Race
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Heart, Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.111, Penguin

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Never Trust, Contemplation, Walking

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hate, Jew

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Funny Inspirational, Memories, Philosophical
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Joy, Way
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.95, Xist Publishing

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Space, Atoms, Body
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.77, Penguin UK

The noble soul reveres itself

Friedrich Nietzsche
Soul, Noble

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tired

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Enough, Abyss

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

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

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Healing, Autumn, Soul

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