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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Women, Humorous

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Tired, Past

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage, Art, Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.161, Cambridge University Press

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Way, Causes
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.205, Vintage

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Kind, Confession
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.203, Modern Library

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Interpretation, Schemes
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.283, Penguin

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Philosophy, People

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Science, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.48, Penguin

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Philosopher, Habit
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.23, Courier Corporation

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, War, Health
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.57, Friedrich Nietzsche

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Philosophy, History

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiring, Wisdom, Philosophy
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883 - 1891.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Philosophy, Medicine
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Lying, Believe
"Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency". Book by Elliot L. Jurist, 2000.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Father, Philosophy

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Greatness, Men

Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Mean, Evil

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Mean, Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Games, Play

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Philosophical, Goal

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stars, Clever, Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.34, Penguin

Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Nice, Light

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Plato, Philosophy

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Philosophy, Men

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