Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

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

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.