Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Some men are born posthumously.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

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

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Life without music is no life at all.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!