Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;

how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

One must need to be strong; otherwise, one never becomes strong.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has distressed me.

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

He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

A human being who strives for something great considers everyone he meets on his way either as a means or as a delay and obstacle - or as a temporary resting place.

Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how.

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

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

No artist tolerates reality.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

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.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Great intellects are skeptical.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Only sick music makes money today.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

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.