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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Order, Gnats, Darkness

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Water, Depth, Obscurity

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Men, Criticism
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude, Too Much, Accepting

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Imperfect, Tense, Existence
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sight, Views, World
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.43, Vintage

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Reality, Men
"The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, "Preface to Richard Wagner" (p. 13), 1872.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Greatness, Innocence
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.39, Vintage

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart
"Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (Section "Expeditions of an Untimely Man", §26), 1889.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Honesty, War, Enemy

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Slave, Nobility, Disobedience
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.49, Booklassic

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Positive, Long, Looks

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Men, Vision
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato, Envy, Style

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Humanity, Ticklish
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.28, e-artnow

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Sound, May

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise, Made, Modest

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Persistence, Mind
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Culture, Danger, Periods
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.214, Courier Corporation

Thinking evil is making evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Thinking, Evil

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Taste, Life Is, Disputes
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.101, Oxford University Press

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage, Bravery, Late
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Moral, Insult, Kind
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Common, Anarchist
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Confession, Form

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