Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
