Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (470 Quotes)


    But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.



    But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them.






    The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. Γ¦Behold, just now the world became perfect!Æùthus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. ManΓ†s disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.



    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.

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

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

    Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

    People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

    You say it is the good cause that hallows even war I tell you it is the good war that hallows every cause.


    Love is the state in which man sees things Most widely different from what they are.

    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.



    I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

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

    All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

    The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.


    Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

    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.


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

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

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

    The strongest knowledge (that of the total unfreedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

    Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

    The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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


    Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little) but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.


    Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.


    What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turnedand you with it, dust of the dust' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'



    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.

    Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious.

    One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.


    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.


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