Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

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

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

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

I am one thing, my writings are another.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

A vocation is the backbone of life.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

We are always in our own company.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.