Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

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

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Woman was God's second mistake.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

The lie is a condition of life.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.