Read Friedrich Nietzsche's Best Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche ( Frederick niche) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. The central question of Nietzsche's philosophy is the relationship between truth and the world, or more specifically, the relationship between human beings and the world. Nietzsche's great innovation was in the arena of morality: his declaration that the world is fundamentally neither moral nor immoral, but amoral. He began by committing himself to truth, which meant uncovering the facts, and discovering what is going on in the world. But this was not a question of morality. Nietzsche thought that it was possible to know what is going on in the world, to know what is the truth of things. For Nietzsche, the truth was not a matter of moral obligation, but of intellectual discovery. The truth was what was true, not what was good.
Sometimes people
don't want to hear the
truth because they
don't want their
illusions destroyed.
That which
does not kill us
makes us stronger.
I'm not upset that
you lied to me.
I'm upset that
from now on
I can't believe you.
A woman brightens up
facial flaws with cosmetics,
figure flaws with
clothes, and mental
flaws with marriage
to a Smart man.
He who has a 'why'
to live for can
bear almost
anyhow.
The true man
wants two things in danger
and plays for that reason
he wants women as
the most dangerous plaything.
The lonely one offers
his hand too quickly
to whomever he encounters.
Hope in reality
is the worst of all evils
because it prolongs
the torments of man.
The snake which
cannot cast its skin
has to die as well as
the minds which are
prevented from changing their
opinions cease to
be mined.
To feel good in a marriage
means to feel good
about your spouse's
shortcomings.
No one can
construct for you
the bridge upon which
precisely you must cross
the stream of life no one
but yourself alone.
The unselective knowledge
drive resembles the
indiscriminate sexual drive
signs of vulgarity.
Virtue is
the health of the soul.
You have your way.
I have my way
as for the right way,
the correct way, and
the only way it does not exist.
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.
Ultimately it is the
desire, not the desire
that we love.
Perhaps I know
best why it is man alone
who laughs he alone suffers
so deeply that he had to
invent laughter.
He that feeds
the hungry refreshes
his own soul says
wisdom.
A thought even
a possibility can
shatter and
transform us.
To live is to
suffer to survive
is to find some
meaning in
the suffering.
Those who inflate
themselves are cursed
when pricked by a small
pin to burst.
It is nobler to declare
oneself wrong than to
insist on being right,
especially when
one is right.
Whoever is not
capable of either
love or friendship
most certainly makes
his bet on marriage.
You must be ready
to burn yourself in your
own flame, how could you
rise anew if you have not
first become ashes?
Is life, not a thousand times
too short for us
to bore ourselves.
He who fights monsters
might take care lest
he thereby becomes
a monster.
You must pay dearly
for immortality, one has to
die several times
whiles still alive.
The lack of young
men are that they think
they are more happy
or unhappy than they
really are.
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.
The higher man is
distinguished from the
lower by his fearlessness
and his readiness to
challenge misfortune.
The strength of
a person's spirit would
then be measured by
how much truth he could tolerate
or more precisely to what extent
he needs to have it deluded
disguised sweetened
muted falsified.
The most spiritual people
experience by far the
most painful tragedies, but this
is precisely why they honor
life because it provides them
with their greatest adversities.
He who cannot
put his thoughts on ice
should not enter into
the heat of the dispute.
Many are stubborn
in pursuit of the path
they have chosen few
in pursuit of the goal.
We stop too often
at knowing the good
without doing it because
we also know the better but
cannot do it.
Sensuality often forces
the growth of love too much
so that its roots remain weak and
are easily torn up.
He who obeys does not
listen to himself!
He who cannot
obey himself will be commanded
that is the nature of
living creatures.
Without music,
life would be
an error.
What was silent
in the father speaks in the
son and often I found the son
the unveiled secret of the father.
The fewer friends
a person has the more
he has the time to be alone
with himself and the
happier they feel.
In the mountains,
the shortest way is from
peak to peak but for that root,
thou must have long legs proverbs
should be peaks, and those spoken to
should be big and tall.
One of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century, Nietzsche's influence on Western philosophy is virtually immeasurable. His most important books include The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Antichrist, and Ecce ****. He is also known as a composer and performer of songs and is considered by many scholars to be the first artist to ever incorporate the aesthetics of music into his philosophical writings.
I noticed that autumn
was more the season of
the soul than of nature.
When we have to change
our mind about a person,
we hold the inconvenience
he causes us very much
against him.
It's risky to get married after 40
because the risk of making
such a decision under the influence
of loneliness is
very high.
The secret to reaping
the greatest fruitfulness
and the greatest
enjoyment from life
is to live dangerously.
Be very careful if you
are praised it means
that you can only be sure
that you are not on your true
path yet but on someone else's.
To become what one
is one must not have
the faintest notion
of what one is.
I know of no better
life purpose than to perish
in attempting the great and
the impossible.
To some people,
you may give not your hand
but only a slap with the paw
and I would at your paw also have
claws.
The only thing that makes
a marriage unhappy is not
a lack of love. It's the lack of
friendship.
To speak about oneself,
not at all is a
very refined form of
hypocrisy.
Under peaceful conditions
the militant man
attacks himself.
Is not
wounded vanity
the mother of
all tragedies?
And when you gaze long
enough into the abyss,
the abyss will gaze
back into you.
The advantage of
a bad memory is that
one enjoys several times
the same good things for the
first time.
What is great in
humans is that it is a
bridge and not a goal
what can be loved in humans
is that it is going over and
going under.