Born Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

14 Born quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche never shied away from confronting the raw facts of existence, and birth is no exception. These 14 terse statements cut straight to his stark, often unsettling, view of how we enter the world.

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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

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Some men are born posthumously.

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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

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You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

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The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But…

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There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and…

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is…

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Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born,…

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“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow…

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There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in…

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One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the…

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