Famous Quotes

Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

• I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
• I love those who do not know how to live for today.
• I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
• If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
• In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
• In music the passions enjoy themselves.
• 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.
• In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
• In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
• Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
• 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.
• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
• It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
• It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
• Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
• Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
• Love is not consolation. It is light.
• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
• Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
• Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
• 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.
• Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
• Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
• 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.
• Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
• 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.
• Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
• One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
• 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.
• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
• Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
• Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.