Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

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A channel for sharing the works of the great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Most quotes from my own reading of published English translations.

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

30 Sep, 10:12

“We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.”

- Untimely Meditations

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

16 Aug, 06:51

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?"

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

15 Aug, 18:27

“We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from ourselves as if we had reason to feel ashamed. We are two ships each of which has its goal and course; our paths may cross and we may celebrate a feast together, as we did—and then the good ships rested so quietly in one harbour and one sunshine that it may have looked as if they had reached their goal and as if they had one goal. But then the almighty force of our tasks drove us apart again into different seas and sunny zones, and perhaps we shall never see each other again; perhaps we shall meet again but fail to recognise each other: our exposure to different seas and suns has changed us.”

- The Gay Science

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

14 Aug, 13:53

“During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity.”

- Human, All Too Human

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

12 Aug, 12:35

“Love exposes the great and hidden qualities in the lover - what is rare and exceptional about him: to that extent it easily conceals what is ordinary.”

- Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

01 Aug, 10:11

“Benefitting and hurting others are ways of exercising one’s power upon others; that is all one desires in such cases.”

- The Gay Science

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

31 Jul, 07:55

“What? The aim of science should be to give men as much pleasure as and as little displeasure as possible? But what if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much possible of the other?”

- The Gay Science

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

15 Jul, 15:22

“A law-book never recites the utility, the grounds, the casuistical antecedents of a law: for if it did so it would lose the imperative tone, the “thou shall,” on which obedience is based.”

- The Antichrist

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

28 Jun, 05:11

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

26 Jun, 09:04

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

- The Gay Science

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

18 Jun, 19:37

“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary.”

- Human, All Too Human

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

04 Jun, 17:30

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

29 May, 11:21

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

- Human, All Too Human

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

23 May, 08:34

Happy Saturday

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

20 May, 14:26

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
-Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

11 Apr, 21:49

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

12 Mar, 12:38

"All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward — this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his "soul.""

- On the Genealogy of Morality

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

12 Mar, 08:55

"That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this."

- The Antichrist

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

11 Mar, 11:39

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."

- Ecce Homo

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

11 Mar, 09:22

"Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it—so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world."

- The Antichrist

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

10 Mar, 18:37

"'Faith' means not wanting to know."

- The Antichrist

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

10 Mar, 17:44

“You dislike him and present many grounds for this dislike - but I believe only in your dislike, not in your grounds! You flatter yourself in your own eyes when you suggest to yourself and to me that what has happened through instinct is the result of a process of reasoning.”

- Daybreak

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

09 Mar, 22:09

“What is tradition? A higher authority which one obeys, not because it commands what is useful to us, but because it commands.”

- Daybreak

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

07 Mar, 14:31

"For thousands of years, a deep, suspicious fear of an incurable pessimism has forced people to cling to a religious interpretation of existence."

- Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

07 Mar, 10:26

"It is painful and difficult for the ear to hear something new; we are bad at listening to strange music."

- Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

06 Mar, 12:46

"We have to follow our instincts, but convince our reason to lend them a helping hand with good arguments."

- Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

06 Mar, 09:42

"Happiness and virtue cannot be used as arguments. But we like to forget, even the thoughtful spirits among us, that whatever makes us unhappy or evil can no more be used as a counter-argument. Something might be true, even if it were also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree; indeed, it might be part of the essential nature of existence that to understand it completely would lead to our own destruction."

- Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

05 Mar, 19:28

"The economy of the spirit does indeed occasionally require transitional orders of ideas; thus the passage from religion to a scientific mode of thought is a violent and perilous leap, something to be advised against."

- Human, All Too Human

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

05 Mar, 17:18

"Christianity has been the most disastrous form of human presumption yet."

- Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

05 Mar, 14:32

“Moral judgment has this in common with the religious one: that it believes in realities which are not real.”

- Twilight of the Idols

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

05 Mar, 13:27

"All those moral codes that are addressed to individuals, aimed at their so-called 'happiness' - what are they but behavioural guides in relation to the degree of precariousness that the individual feels about himself; recipes to counter his passions, his good and bad tendencies, if he possesses the will to power and would like to play the master; large or small tidbits of shrewdness and affection, infected with the musty smell of old home remedies and old wives' tales."

- Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

03 Mar, 18:32

“‘This – is now my way: where is yours?’ Thus I answered those who asked me ‘the way’. For the way – does not exist!”

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

08 Feb, 17:27

"There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it."

- Untimely Meditations

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

22 Jan, 10:42

“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.”

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

11 Jan, 13:46

“You shall become the person you are.”

- The Gay Science

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

15 Dec, 00:30

"People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings."

- Human, All Too Human

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

23 Nov, 18:17

“Insofar as the individual is seeking happiness, one ought not to tender him any prescriptions as to the path to happiness: for individual happiness springs from one's own unknown laws, and prescriptions from without can only obstruct and hinder it. - The prescriptions called 'moral' are in truth directed against individuals and are in no way aimed at promoting their happiness.”

- Daybreak

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Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

02 Nov, 19:28

“The reproaches of conscience are weak even in the most conscientious people compared to the feeling: “This or that is against the morals of your society.” A cold look or a sneer on the face of those among whom and for whom one has been educated is feared even by the strongest. What is it that they are really afraid of? Growing solitude! This is the argument that rebuts even the best arguments for a person or cause. —Thus the herd instinct speaks up in us.”

- The Gay Science

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