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Nietzsche quotes in alphabetical order:
 

1) Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

2) All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

3) All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

4) At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

5) Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

6) Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

7) Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

8) Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

9) Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

10) Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

11) God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

12) He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

13) If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

14) If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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

16) In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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

18) It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

19) Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

20) Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

21) Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

22) Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

23) On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

24) One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

25) One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

26) That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

27) The future influences the present just as much as the past.

28) The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

29) 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.

30) The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

31) There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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

33) This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

34) Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than these.

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

36) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

37) Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

38) You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.