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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Improvement, Feels, Miscellaneous

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Friedrich Nietzsche
Perspective, Devil, Ancient
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.277, Modern Library

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage, People, Brave

If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheist, Endure, Ifs
Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.64, Algora Publishing

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Faults, Ideals
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.29, Xist Publishing

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Science, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.27, Penguin

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Writing, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.38, Penguin

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Party, Errors, Society
Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.79, Penguin UK

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Funny, Death, God
"Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxims and Arrows, 7, 1888.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Character, Personality, Birth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Doctors, Physicians, Born

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrite, Power
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

We are always in our own company.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Company

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Bless, Inhuman, Cursed

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspire, Greek, Philosopher

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Rain, Creativity, Sunshine

If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Men, Lazy
"Untimely Meditations". "Schopenhauer as educator," § 3.1, p. 128. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (1876), translated by R. J. Hollingdale, 1983.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious, Thinking, Answers
Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Soul, Body
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.95, Penguin

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage, Said, Admire
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.272, Vintage

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Climbing, Two, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Law, Broken, Sake

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Motivational, Strength, Giving Up
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Time, Fighting, Greatness
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Believe, Stills
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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