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We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Answers, Able

It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Perspective, Lust, Needs
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.373, Vintage

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.150, e-artnow

Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Honesty, Stupid, Russia
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

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Money, Moon, Giving

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Blessed, Apology

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Friedrich Nietzsche
Liars, Artist, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.408, Modern Library

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Adventure, Mean
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Noble Man, Bridges
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.475, Modern Library

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter, Animal, Men

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Feelings, Needs

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

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Creating, Suffering, Transformation
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.90, Jester House Publishing

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pregnancy, Feminism, Solutions

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lunch, House, Ashes
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Ashamed

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Grateful, Enemy, Way

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Teacher, Learning, Light
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Prologue, part 9, 1883.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Done, Guts

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

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Type
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.168, Vintage

Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Believe, Fate

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Example, Authority

The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sick, World, Hell

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche
History, Historical, Faults
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.16, Courier Corporation

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Causes, Blame, Judgment

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