Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Physician, heal thyself: then wilt thou also heal thy patient. Let it be his best cure to see with his eyes him who maketh himself whole.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

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

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.

to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs.

Zarathustra answered: “I love mankind.

Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Women are still cats and birds. Or at the best, cows.

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

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

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

One is punished most for one’s virtues.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.

With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.

Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.