Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

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.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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.

There is always some madness in love.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

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

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

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.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.