Inspirational Quotations by Friedrich Nietzsche

  • He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
    From Issue 185
  • 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.
    From Issue 185
  • When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
    From Issue 272
  • Man is much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
    From Issue 358
  • Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
    From Issue 391
  • Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
    From Issue 395
  • The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.
    From Issue 397
  • Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
    From Issue 417

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