Friedrich Nietzsche quotes.
All 31 quotations by Friedrich Nietzsche in our collection.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”
“Art is the proper task of life.”
“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.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“Success has always been a great liar.”
“The highest wisdom is to understand that all men are mad.”
“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”
“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”
“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”
“He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.”
“The doer alone learneth.”
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“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.”
“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”
“When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.”
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