Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes And Sayings

The Bad Gains Respect Through Imitation, The Good Loses It Especially In Art.

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.

What Do You Regard As Most Humane? To Spare Someone Shame.

A Subject For A Great Poet Would Be God's Boredom After The Seventh Day Of Creation.

What Really Raises One's Indignation Against Suffering Is Not Suffering Intrinsically, But The Senselessness Of Suffering.

Character Is Determined More By The Lack Of Certain Experiences Than By Those One Has Had.

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.

Great Indebtedness Does Not Make Men Grateful, But Vengeful; And If A Little Charity Is Not Forgotten, It Turns Into A Gnawing Worm.

Once Spirit Was God, Then It Became Man, And Now It Is Even Becoming Mob.

When A Hundred Men Stand Together, Each Of Them Loses His Mind And Gets Another One.

One May Sometimes Tell A Lie, But The Grimace That Accompanies It Tells The Truth.

Without Music, Life Would Be A Mistake.

What Can Everyone Do? Praise And Blame. This Is Human Virtue, This Is Human Madness.

'Evil Men Have No Songs.' How Is It That The Russians Have Songs?

Art Raises Its Head Where Creeds Relax.

Insanity In Individuals Is Something Rare - But In Groups, Parties, Nations And Epochs, It Is The Rule.

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.

Plato Was A Bore.

What Then In The Last Resort Are The Truths Of Mankind? They Are The Irrefutable Errors Of Mankind.

Extreme Positions Are Not Succeeded By Moderate Ones, But By Contrary Extreme Positions.

Existence Really Is An Imperfect Tense That Never Becomes A Present.

Shared Joys Make A Friend, Not Shared Sufferings.

Does Wisdom Perhaps Appear On The Earth As A Raven Which Is Inspired By The Smell Of Carrion?

The Best Weapon Against An Enemy Is Another Enemy.

There Are No Moral Phenomena At All, But Only A Moral Interpretation Of Phenomena.

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.

There Is Nothing We Like To Communicate To Others As Much As The Seal Of Secrecy Together With What Lies Under It.

Some Are Made Modest By Great Praise, Others Insolent.

Do Whatever You Will, But First Be Such As Are Able To Will.

Before The Effect One Believes In Different Causes Than One Does After The Effect.

The Abdomen Is The Reason Why Man Does Not Readily Take Himself To Be A God.

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.

It Is Impossible To Suffer Without Making Someone Pay For It; Every Complaint Already Contains Revenge.

The True Man Wants Two Things: Danger And Play. For That Reason He Wants Woman, As The Most Dangerous Plaything.

Whoever Does Not Have A Good Father Should Procure One.

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.

He Who Would Learn To Fly One Day Must First Learn To Stand And Walk And Run And Climb And Dance; One Cannot Fly Into Flying.

It Is Not A Lack Of Love, But A Lack Of Friendship That Makes Unhappy Marriages.

All Truly Great Thoughts Are Conceived By Walking.

We Love Life, Not Because We Are Used To Living But Because We Are Used To Loving.

The Demand To Be Loved Is The Greatest Of All Arrogant Presumptions.

All Truth Is Simple... Is That Not Doubly A Lie?

When One Has Finished Building One's House, One Suddenly Realizes That In The Process One Has Learned Something That One Really Needed To Know In The Worst Way - Before One Began.

One Must Still Have Chaos In Oneself To Be Able To Give Birth To A Dancing Star.

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.

A Good Writer Possesses Not Only His Own Spirit But Also The Spirit Of His Friends.

We Do Not Hate As Long As We Still Attach A Lesser Value, But Only When We Attach An Equal Or A Greater Value.

If There Is Something To Pardon In Everything, There Is Also Something To Condemn.

The Essence Of All Beautiful Art, All Great Art, Is Gratitude.

What Is Great In Man Is That He Is A Bridge And Not A Goal.