Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The lie is a condition of life.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Success has always been a great liar.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
