Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
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.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
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.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
