Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly ...

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary bein...

hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently ...

There are so many futures still to dawn!

Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seein...

Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the c...

Do not make passion an argument for truth! - O you good-natured and even noble enthusiasts, I know y...

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

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

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently a...

The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse or...

Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for ...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!

The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge o...

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule...

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering...

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as some...

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

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety:...

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best...

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known,...

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman,...

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

Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happ...

Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which show...

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd,...

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, t...

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom...

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes render...

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes...

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my fr...

I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a mom...

One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to your...

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever a...

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belo...

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neigh...

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

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Perhaps he even needs to have been a critic and a sceptic and a dogmatist and an historian, and in a...

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

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we ha...

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

[Anything which] is a living thing and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to powe...

One is punished most for one’s virtues.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy...

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drive...

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience ...

A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the ac...

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powe...

For us, the falsity of a judgment is still no objection to that judgment — that’s where our new way ...

No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the c...

Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attr...

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--human...

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the r...

But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartle...

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would nev...

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly l...

There are no facts only interpretations.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the st...

Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the tru...

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - ...

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for...

We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reac...

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

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

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I ...

Only sick music makes money today.

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

All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.

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

The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenl...

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

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

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

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent ...

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

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

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations ...

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - he...

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things ar...

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament th...

The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example is easy to give but to carry it out presupposes...