Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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

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

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

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.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

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

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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

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

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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

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.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

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

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!