Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman was God's second mistake.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been a great liar.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

~ 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

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche