Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.

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.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

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

To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

When one has not had a good father one must create one.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

There are no facts only interpretations.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

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.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

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?