Famous Quotes

Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
• We have art in order not to die of the truth.
• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
• 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.
• What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
• What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
• Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
• When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
• 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.
• When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
• When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
• Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
• Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
• Without music, life would be a mistake.
• Woman was God's second mistake.
• Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.