Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes (267 Quotes)

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence

What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose

Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa with a blessing rather than in love

The belief in authority is the source of conscience which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

The sting of conscience teacheth one to sting.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared -- this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them

...no pain has been or shall be able to tempt me into giving false testimony about life as I recognize it.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case one must be both -- a philosopher.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation

The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness

The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.

I do not love my neighbor near,but wish he were high up and far.How else could he become my star

We create truth, we don't discover it.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children

He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

For let us not underestimate the Christian the Christian, false to point of innocence, is far above the ape - regarding Christians, a well-known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment

It takes less time to learn how to write nobly than how to write lightly and straightforwardly

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

Beggars should be abolished entirely Verily, it is annoying to give to them and it is annoying not to give to them

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Genius depends on dry air, on clear skies -- that is, on rapid metabolism, on the possibility of drawing again and again on great, even tremendous quantities of strength.

The beauty of nature, like every other kind of beauty, is quite jealous it demands that one serve it alone.

Since I grew tired of the chaseAnd search, I learned to findAnd since the wind blows in my face,I sail with every wind.

Is man merely a mistake of God's Or God merely a mistake of man's

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

There is no knowledge of true being. The world is fundamentally in a state of becoming.

The visionary denies the truth to himself, the liar only to others

War to the death against depravity - depravity is Christianity

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes

Suffering and taking sin upon himself might have been right for that preacher of small people. But I rejoice in great sin as my great solace.

To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task

When we set truth on its head we usually fail to notice that our head too is not standing where it ought to stand.

Morals, however, remain invaluable they reveal, at least for those who know, the most valuable realities of cultures which did not know enough to understand themselves. At all times they have wanted to improve men this above all was called morality.

The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solemn vows.

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.