Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

This secret spoke Life herself unto me: "Behold," said she, "I am that which must ever surpass itself."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

"To give style" to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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