Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Woman was God's second mistake.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Plato was a bore.
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
