Famous Quotes

Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
• A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
• A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
• A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
• A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
• 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.
• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
• Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
• All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
• All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
• All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
• An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
• 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.
• Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
• Art is the proper task of life.
• Art raises its head where creeds relax.