Famous Nietzsche Quotations

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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The doer alone learneth."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are no facts, only interpretations"
by Friedrich nietzsche
"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
by 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."
by 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."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
by 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."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art raises its head where creeds relax."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love is blind friendship closes its eyes."
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!"
by Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"'Every man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
by 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions"
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain."
by Nietzsche
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human 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."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously"
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders."
by Friederich Nietzsche
"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies"
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from 'justifying' ourselves."
by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology."
by Friedrich Nietzsche


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