Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Röcken bei Lützen, a small village in Prussia (part of present-day Germany) on October 15, 1844. He had a relatively brief but brilliant career where he published many outstanding works like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Genealogy of Morals, and Twilight of the Idols.
His writings inspired numerous writers and thinkers of the 20th century on morality and individuality in contemporary civilization. His philosophies were mainly based on pragmatism, self- perfection through the creative drive, and will power to convert an ordinary situation to your benefit.
His theories of “God is dead” deemed a rejection to absolute surrender for any religion and “Übermensch,” where an individual can exist beyond conventional categories of evil and good.However, the misleading and selective use of some of his work was used by the Nazi Party during the World War to justify their actions, which darkened his reputation for future audiences. He died of insanity on August 25, 1900.
Friedric Nietzsche Quotes about “God”
- “Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.”
- “Without music, life would be a mistake… I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
- “Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God–what? perhaps a “world”?”
- “I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”
- “God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.”
20+ Friedric Nietzsche Quotes for You
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, gratitude.- Friedric Nietzsche
Art raises its head where creeds relax..- Friedric Nietzsche
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.- Friedric Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.- Friedric Nietzsche
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.- Friedric Nietzsche
One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.- Friedric Nietzsche
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.- Friedric Nietzsche
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.- Friedric Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.- Friedric Nietzsche
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.- Friedric Nietzsche
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.- Friedric Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.- Friedric Nietzsche
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.- Friedric Nietzsche
Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.- Friedric Nietzsche
What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering.- Friedric Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.- Friedric Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.- Friedric Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.- Friedric Nietzsche
The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.- Friedric Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.- Friedric Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.- Friedric Nietzsche
The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.- Friedric Nietzsche
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.- Friedric Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.- Friedric Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.- Friedric Nietzsche
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