A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Art is the proper task of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Fear is the mother of morality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Love is not consolation. It is light.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The doer alone learneth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
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 Quote
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote
