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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Existentialism

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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

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Teacher, Existentialism, Pupils
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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Wish, Looks, Existentialism

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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Truth, Existentialism, Shallow
"The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 126, 1882.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Existentialism, Despise

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

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Integrity, Existentialism, Mistrust
The Twilight of the Idols "Maxims and Arrows" sec. 26 (1888) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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Wall, Fabulous, Existentialism
"Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Opposites, Existentialism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.250, Penguin UK

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Existentialism, Ifs
Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.72, Penguin UK

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Judging, Guilt, Existentialism
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.66, Penguin

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Loathing, Existentialism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.65, Friedrich Nietzsche

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Humility, Wish, Existentialism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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