German Quotes

60 quotes in this collection

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Amor Fati – Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

-- Friedrich 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."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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