Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The lie is a condition of life.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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

Plato was a bore.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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

Fear is the mother of morality.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

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

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.