Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to pay dearly for immortality, one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs, he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Friedrich Nietzsche

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite, the unconditional will to say 'no', where it is dangerous to say 'no'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Friedrich Nietzsche