Has beens Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?…

— Friedrich Nietzsche