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title: "51 Firsts Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche"
description: "51 Firsts quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Firsts sayings from other authors."
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> [As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/as-soon-as-a-religion-comes-to-dominate-it-has-as-its-opponents-all/)

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> [It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-no-doubt-possible-to-fly-but-first-you-must-know-how-to-dance/)

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> [To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/to-be-the-equal-of-one-s-opponent-this-is-the-first-condition-of-an/)

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> [What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-does-a-philosopher-demand-of-himself-first-and-last-to-overcome/)

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> [The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-weak-and-misbegotten-shall-perish-first-principle-of-our/)

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> [The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-most-fundamental-form-of-human-stupidity-is-forgetting-what-we/)

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> [you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/you-must-be-ready-to-burn-yourself-in-your-own-flame-how-could-you/)

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> [One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-must-first-be-firmly-set-in-oneself-one-must-stand-securely-on/)

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> [If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/if-god-had-wanted-to-become-an-object-of-love-he-would-first-of-all/)

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> [The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-first-opinion-that-occurs-to-us-when-we-are-suddenly-asked-about/)

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> [The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-aphorism-the-apothegm-in-which-i-am-the-first-among-the-germans/)

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> [I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-was-in-darkness-but-i-took-three-steps-and-found-myself-in-paradise/)

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> [To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/to-the-good-warrior-soundeth-thou-shalt-pleasanter-than-i-will-and/)

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> [A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-reader-is-doubly-guilty-of-bad-manners-against-an-author-when-he/)

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> [A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-dionysian-life-task-needs-the-hardness-of-the-hammer-and-one-of-its/)

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> [I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-love-those-who-do-not-first-seek-a-reason-beyond-the-stars-for/)

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> [ Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life \[Lebensphilosoph\], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/socrates-is-the-first-philosopher-of-life-lebensphilosoph-thinking/)

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> [But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/but-the-worst-enemy-you-can-meet-will-always-be-yourself-you-lie-in/)

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> [What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-originality-to-see-something-that-is-as-yet-without-a-name/)

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> [In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-every-philosophical-school-three-thinkers-succeed-one-another-in/)

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> [When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/when-a-nation-is-on-the-downward-path-when-it-feels-its-belief-in-its/)

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> [Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/whoever-has-overthrown-an-existing-law-of-custom-has-always-first/)

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> [Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/zarathustra-was-the-first-to-consider-the-fight-of-good-and-evil-the/)

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> [With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/with-the-unknown-one-is-confronted-with-danger-discomfort-and-care/)

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> [On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/on-all-the-walls-wherever-walls-exist-i-will-inscribe-this-eternal/)

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> [Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/everyone-who-has-ever-built-anywhere-a-new-heaven-first-found-the/)

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> [And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/and-he-who-must-be-a-creator-in-good-and-evil-verily-he-must-be-an/)

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> [We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-want-to-be-poets-of-our-life-first-of-all-in-the-smallest-most/)

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> [This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/this-demand-follows-from-an-insight-that-i-was-the-first-to/)

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> [If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/if-a-man-wishes-to-become-a-hero-then-the-serpent-must-first-become-a/)

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> [The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-weak-and-the-botched-shall-perish-first-principle-of-our-charity/)

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> [Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/love-ever-your-neighbour-as-yourselves-but-first-be-such-as-love/)

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> [No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-more-fiction-for-now-we-calculate-but-that-we-may-calculate-we-had/)

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> [All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/all-things-that-are-truly-great-are-at-first-thought-impossible/)

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> [Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/ye-shall-be-those-whose-eyes-ever-seek-for-an-enemy-for-your-enemy/)

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> [All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/all-great-things-must-first-wear-terrifying-and-monstrous-masks-in/)

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> [You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/you-cannot-learn-to-fly-by-flying-first-you-must-learn-to-walk-to-run/)

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> [It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-was-christianity-with-its-heartfelt-resentment-against-life-that/)

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> [After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/after-all-what-would-be-beautiful-if-the-contradiction-had-not-first/)

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> [What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-good-all-that-enhances-the-feeling-of-power-the-will-to-power/)

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## Other authors on Firsts

## More by Friedrich Nietzsche

> [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/)

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> [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/)

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> [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/)

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> [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/)

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> [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/)

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> [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/)

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> [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/)

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> [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/)

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> [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/)

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> [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/)

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> [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/)

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> [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/)

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> [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/)

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> [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

> [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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                        "text": "With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The \"why?\" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.",
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                        "text": "On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see… I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish… And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!",
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