Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

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

Art is the proper task of life.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Become who you are!

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Man is the cruelest animal.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Success has always been a great liar.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

The free man is a warrior.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

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

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

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

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.