Friedrich Nietzsche - Love Quotes

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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

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Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

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

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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full natures in whom there is an excess of the power to form, to mold, to recuperate and to forget[...] Such a man shakes off with a single shrug many vermin that eat deep into others; here alone genuine 'love of one's enemies' is possible—supposing it to be possible at all on earth. How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!—and such reverence is a bridge to love.—For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor!

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Model for others. He who wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue; then others can imitate and, at the same time, rise above the one being imitated - something which people love.

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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....

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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

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The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.

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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…

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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

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