Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
And 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.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
