Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

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

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

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

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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

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.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.