Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Art is the proper task of life.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
