Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

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

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."

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

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

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.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

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

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.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

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.

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

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.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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.