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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Power, Masters

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Death, Attractive

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Everyday, Everyday Life

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Motivational, Art
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1951). “My Sister and I”, Olympia Press

The lie is a condition of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Lying, Conditions

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Success, Being Yourself
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Blame, Praise

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Past, Greatness
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Evil, Gains
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Art, Fools Day

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Success, Lying

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Moments, Existence
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None”, p.3, Algora Publishing

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Thinking, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Writing, Wish
Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

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

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Real, May
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Faith, Strong
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Lying, Reality

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Vitality, Doe

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Two, Legs
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.40, Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Cutting, Spirit
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.90, Oxford University Press

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Dance, Laughter

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

Thinking evil is making evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Thinking, Evil

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Stupidity, Lasts

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