"Good writers have two things in common: they……" — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers."
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1,640 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche has 1,640 quotes on this site.
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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which…
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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The last Christian died on a cross.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that…
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the…
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The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit…
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of…
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A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the…
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More Acute Quotes
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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