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The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Arrogance, Merit

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fate, May, Fool

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Thinking, Guilt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious, Lying, Seductive
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.180, Vintage

All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Communication, Race, Intellectual
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Soul, Body
Friedrich Nietzsche, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Judith Norman (2002). “Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Self Worth, Men, Regard
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.579, Library of Alexandria

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Language, Worst

Man is something to be surpassed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men
'Also Sprach Zarathustra' (1883) prologue, sect. 3

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Ambrosia, Pure

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Angel, Dancing, Dancer

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Friedrich Nietzsche
World, Justified, Existence
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.163, Vintage

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Men, Mathematics

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Change, Vanity, Clothes

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Asceticism, Virtue
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.54, Courier Corporation

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing, Equipment, Our Thoughts

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Suffering, Hardship

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Hatred, Intellectual

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious, War, Religion

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, Names, Mind

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Danger, Terrible
'Ecce Homo' (1908) 'Die Unzeitgemässen' sect. 3

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

Friedrich Nietzsche
Europe, Today, Morality

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

Friedrich Nietzsche
Home, Winter, Blue
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Rights, Majority
"The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Peter Gast and Elisabeth Nietzsche, Sec. 872 (Notebook W I 1. Spring 1884, KGW VII, 2.97-8, KSA 11.101-2), 1888.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Stupidity, Ends
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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