Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

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

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.