Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

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.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Success has always been a great liar.

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

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.