Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

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.

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.

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.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.