Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn

God is dead.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

We are always in our own company.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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

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

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

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Related Resources:

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Adolf Hitler
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Otto von Bismarck
• Richard Wagner

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