Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
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.
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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.
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.
