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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Teacher, Men, History

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

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War, Mean, Europe

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Valleys, Height, Imagine

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Morality, He Man

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Greatness, Age, Recognition
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.171, Courier Corporation

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Passion, Loathing
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Choices, Childhood, My Birthday
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.17, Courier Corporation

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Marriage, Understanding

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Successful, Desire
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.93, Friedrich Nietzsche

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Sunshine, People

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Relation, Absolute Truth, Symbols
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.83, Regnery Publishing

We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dirty, Water, Needs

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing, Heart, Blood
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lust, Delight, Becoming

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
I Love Him, Giving, Soul
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.21, e-artnow

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion, Book, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.49, 谷月社

There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

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Powerful, Men, Shining
"On the Genealogy of Morality". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 1, Section 5, 1887.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nihilism, Sin, Virtue
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.549, Modern Library

Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Nice, Light

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Enemy, Suffering
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.121, Booklassic

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Morning, Laughter, Believe

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Artist, Deceived Us
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.275, Cambridge University Press

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Immature, Novices

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Taken, Foxes

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Cost, Rich, Contradiction
"Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy". Book by Wolfgang Müller-Lauter (p. 7), January 1, 1999.

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