Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Success has always been a great liar.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.