Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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

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

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Woman was God's second mistake.

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

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

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.

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

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

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.

The doer alone learneth.

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.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Art is the proper task of life.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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.

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.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.