Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher known for his critique of morality and religion, particularly through works like 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.'

Born
October 15, 1844
Died
August 25, 1900
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"It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?"

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"The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace."

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"Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them."

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"When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him."

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"Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone."

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"Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths."

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"All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd."

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"We are all afraid of the truth."

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"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."

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"For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's."

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"What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness."

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"I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?"

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"Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased."

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"Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome."

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"He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure."

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"Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power."

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"We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature."

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"Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking."

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"In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare."

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