Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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.

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.

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.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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.

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

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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