Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

We can destroy only as creators

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.