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My favorite quotations: Friedrich Nietzsche

March 23rd, 2006 by Michael Moncur in Biography

German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is best known for philosophical works like Also Sprach Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Antichrist, and his best-known quotations are probably “What does not destroy me makes me stronger” and “God is dead.” Personally, I appreciate him more for his comedy. The following are a few of my favorite Nietzsche quotations.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Reading and Writing”

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Friedrich Nietzsche