Quotes - Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it but degenerated into vice.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich Nietzsche

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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