Nice Quotes #77: Friedrich Nietzsche


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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche


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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.