Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Accidents

• He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stronger, Doe, Serious

• Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Heaven, Religion

• The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wisest Man, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.225, Vintage

• How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Reason, Fitting

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.57, Penguin

• Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Law, Purpose

• Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, Men, Tasks

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

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