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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

14 free books by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. 12 you can read right here.

Born 1844 in Röcken · Died 1900 in Weimar

writer, poet, playwright · Kingdom of Prussia

Notable works: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Birth of Tragedy, Untimely Meditations, On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

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The Antichrist
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Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
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The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza") Complete Works, Volume Ten
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The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
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Der Wille zur Macht: Eine Auslegung alles Geschehens
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Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays Collected Works, Volume Two
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Götzen-Dämmerung
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The Case of Wagner Complete Works, Volume 8
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Ecce homo, Wie man wird, was man ist
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Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch Fuer Freie Geister
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Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra
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On the Future of our Educational Institutions
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Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer Selbstkritik
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We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8
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On the Future of our Educational Institutions; Homer and Classical Philology Complete Works, Volume Three
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Homer and Classical Philology
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Considérations inactuelles, deuxième série Schopenhauer éducateur, Richard Wagner à Bayreuth
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Näin puhui Zarathustra: Kirja kaikille eikä kenellekään
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Im-ígyen szóla Zarathustra
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Dionysos: Valikoima runoja
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Antikristus: Arvostelukoe kristinopista
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Dityrambeja
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1998 (public domain in the USA).

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

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What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.

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The Birth of Tragedy, or Hellenism and Pessimism

From Project Gutenberg e-text #51356 (public domain in the USA).

Knowledge kills action, action requires the veil of illusion--it is this lesson which Hamlet teaches, and not the cheap wisdom of John-a-Dreams who from too much reflection, as it were from a surplus of possibilities, does not arrive at action at all.

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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy, creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myths which rounds off to unity a social movement.

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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

From Project Gutenberg e-text #4363 (public domain in the USA).

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.

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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

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