Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

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

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

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

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

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

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

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

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.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

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.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do'¦?

Only sick music makes money today.

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

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

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life`s terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.

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

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

To forget one`s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

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

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

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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

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

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out

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

What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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

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

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

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

The last Christian died on the cross

He who has a why can endure any how

Art is the proper task of life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Discontent is the seed of ethics

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

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

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

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

The strongest have their moments of fatigue

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

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion

Idleness is the parent of all psychology

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

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

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

I`m not upset that you lied to me, I`m upset that from now on I can`t believe you

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

'˜the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed '“ the deed is everything.

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.

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves.