Blood Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

17 Blood quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s 17 terse reflections on blood cut to the core of his philosophical concerns—strength, decay, and the will to power. The brevity makes each statement strike with intensity.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

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Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

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“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

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“Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.”

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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not…

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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of…

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is…

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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I…

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What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my…

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Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope…

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It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of…

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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What…

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“How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'!”

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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