Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts only interpretations.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche