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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Looks, Want

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Profound, Needs, Spirit
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Three, Idiot, Failing

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Witty, People, Age
"The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 23, 1882.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Noble, Nobility
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.115, Penguin

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness, Certainty, Uncertainty
Source: www.nobelprize.org

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Loneliness, Sadness
"The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 341, 1882.

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Motivational, Journey, Coming To America

Beware of spitting against the wind!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Destiny, Wind
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrisy, Form, Refined

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche
Desire, Levels, Tripping

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Education, School, Mean

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Fighting, Hypocrisy

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, Sex, Wedding Anniversary

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Desire

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Awake
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.201, Penguin

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid, People, Interest

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Deep Thought, Looks, Abyss
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.279, Modern Library

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Ignorance, Age

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Suffering, Cost

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Clever, Ifs
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Relationship, Ideas, Voice

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Death, Live Life, Hands

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Pity, Danger

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, People, Ordinary
Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.8, Penguin UK

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