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Sunday, 17 July 2011

FAMOUS QUOTES BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

On God

1. "God is dead."
2. "What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?"
3. "There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."
4. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." 
5  "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."  

On Life

6. "For believe me: the secret to harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously."
7. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
8. "What does not kill me, makes me stronger."
9. "Art is the proper task of life." 
10. "Life without music would be a mistake." 
11. "The lie is a condition of life."

On Death

12. "To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there."

On Man

13. "Man is the cruelest animal."
14. "Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."

On Love

15. "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
16. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." 
17. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." 

On Truth

18. "There are no facts, only interpretations."
19. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book." 
20. "He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."
21. "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." 
22. "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
23. "Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good." 
24. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
25. "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." 
26. "Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play."
27. "Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."  

On Morality

28. "Morality is herd instinct in the individual."
29. "What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness."  

On success

30. "Success has always been a great liar."

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