Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

wooden pedestal

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 morality  

Add your own tags  

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 adversity  life  

Add your own tags  

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are addressed should be big and tall of stature.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 quotations  

Add your own tags  

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 health  

Add your own tags  

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 thinking  

Add your own tags  

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 children  

Add your own tags  

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 hope  

Add your own tags  

Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 jesus  

Add your own tags  

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 brevity  

Add your own tags  

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 violence  monsters  

Add your own tags  

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

section label

 love  

Add your own tags  

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to Hashish.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 drugs  

Add your own tags  

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 argument  irrationality  

Add your own tags  

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 passion  

Add your own tags  

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 purpose  

Add your own tags  

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 homosexuality  

Add your own tags  

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 philosophy  

Add your own tags  

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 dancing  god  

Add your own tags  

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 sleep  

Add your own tags  

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 virtue  vices  

Add your own tags  

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 appearance  love  

Add your own tags  

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 belief  truth  lies  

Add your own tags  

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is a vice?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 psychology  vices  

Add your own tags  

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

section label

 sanity  

Add your own tags