Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow



Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.



The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.



Morality in Europe today is herd-morality



Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.



He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.



He that humbleth himself wishes to be exaltedî



Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire



It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.



I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.



Not necessity, not desire /no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything /health, food, a place to live, entertainment /they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.



We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!



The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects .



Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.



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.








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