Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

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?

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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

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

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

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.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Success has always been a great liar.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.