Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

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

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

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

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

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

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

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

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

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.