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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope, Believe, Rights

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Suffering, Pay

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Struggle, Luxury, Doe

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Character, Experience, Determined

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Writing, Thinking

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sick, Disease, Made
"Der Fall Wagner". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Vanity, World
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.386, Cambridge University Press

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dad, Father, Doe
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mind, World, May
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.211, Modern Library

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Men, Speech
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.202, Penguin

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Two, Alcohol
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.393, Penguin

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage, Infidelity, Quality

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Two, People, Degrees
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.411, Modern Library

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

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

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Freedom, Men

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Men, Truthful

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Swimming, Class, Firsts

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheist, Fear, Reality
"The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Purpose, Chance, Foolishness

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Proud, Hated, Foe
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.209, e-artnow

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Health, Illness, Aids

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Germany, Culture, Ruins
Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.39, Penguin UK

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Knowing, Atheism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.84, Friederich Nietzsche

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Love Is, Love Is Blind

Respectability offends my taste.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Taste, Respectability

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