Nietzsche Quotes

Drawing by Hans Olde from the photographic series, The Ill Nietzsche, mid-1899.

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes


“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― 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

“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

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: perspective, truth

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: individuality

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: agama, agnosticism, prayer, religion

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: past, philosophy

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: change, mind, nietzsche

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: insanity, society

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: forgetfulness, forgetting, happiness, memory

“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: animals, cruelty, evil, man

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: philosophy

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: atheism, organized-religion, paradox, religion

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: belief, delusions, faith, insanity

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: philosophy, women

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
tags: demons, happiness, judgement, kronofobi, life, reincarnation, sadness

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: suicide

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
tags: inspirational

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: failure, intelligence, science, scientific-process, success, truth

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: self-exploration

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: art

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: friends, friendship, observation, writers, writing

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: emotions, heart, insanity, love, rationality, reason

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: christian-behavior, christianity, religion

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Or, How to Philosophize With the Hammer
tags: exercise, intelligence, reflection, thinking, walking

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: battle-of-the-sexes, gender-stereotypes

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: perception

“Art is the proper task of life. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: art, inspirational, life

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: writing

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
tags: darkness

“Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
tags: irreligion, religion

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: fate, inspirational, life, love

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: life

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
tags: on-self-overcoming

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
tags: atheism, belief, blind, blind-faith, blindness, christian-faith, christian-miracle, critical-thinking, critical-thought, death-of-reason, doubt, doubt-is-sin, eternity, existence, foundation-of-belief, human-nature, intoxication, meaning, meaning-of-life, metaphor, miracle, myth, nature, origin, philosophy, purpose, purpose-of-life, reason, reflection, religious-faith, resurrection, resurrection-of-jesus, sin, sinful, thinking, thoughts, wasted-life

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: connection, invisibility, thread, ties

“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: beatitudes, bless, blessed, blunders, forget, forgetful, friedrich, memory, nietzsch

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: atheism

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: inspirational

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: possibility, profundity, thought

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: humour, men, slavery, slaves

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: lies, lying, self-deception, vision, visionaries

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: reality

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: desire, love

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: boredom, life

“Become who you are!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: philosophical

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: creative-process, creativity, inspirational, mental-illness, outsider, self-discovery

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: awakened, beauty, gentle, voice

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: anarchy, lies

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: ant-christ, atheism, philosophy, religion

“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
tags: existentialism, student, teacher

“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: fear, monsters, nietzsche

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



Source: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche