Quotes by Nietzsche, Friedrich




Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality. Beyond the unique themes dealt with in his works, Nietzsche's powerful style and subtle approach are distinguishing features of his writings. Although largely overlooked during his short working life, which ended with a mental collapse at the age of 44, and frequently misunderstood and misrepresented thereafter, Nietzsche received recognition during the second half of the 20th century as a highly significant figure in modern philosophy. His influence was particularly noted by many existentialist and postmodern philosophers..

"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
12 fans of this quote    Share


"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
23 fans of this quote    Share

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
31 fans of this quote    Share

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
12 fans of this quote    Share

"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
23 fans of this quote    Share

"The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on disability
4 fans of this quote    Share

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
14 fans of this quote    Share

"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
19 fans of this quote    Share

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
16 fans of this quote    Share

"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
20 fans of this quote    Share

"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on joy
9 fans of this quote    Share

"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on equality
6 fans of this quote    Share

"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on excellence
7 fans of this quote    Share

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on existence
5 fans of this quote    Share

"A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on experience
3 fans of this quote    Share

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on experience
5 fans of this quote    Share

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on extremes and extremists
3 fans of this quote    Share

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
21 fans of this quote    Share

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
13 fans of this quote    Share

"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fallibility
7 fans of this quote    Share

"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fanatics and fanaticism
7 fans of this quote    Share

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fathers
8 fans of this quote    Share

"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
17 fans of this quote    Share

"Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on feminism
5 fans of this quote    Share

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
27 fans of this quote    Share

"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
12 fans of this quote    Share

"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
20 fans of this quote    Share

"We are franker towards others than towards ourselves."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on frankness
16 fans of this quote    Share

"The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on free will
3 fans of this quote    Share

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on free will
8 fans of this quote    Share

"How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on freedom    Share

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
9 fans of this quote    Share

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
13 fans of this quote    Share

"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on the future
10 fans of this quote    Share

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism
8 fans of this quote    Share

"Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on alcohol and alcoholism    Share

"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anarchism
8 fans of this quote    Share

"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
7 fans of this quote    Share

But wait... There are more: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 next

Take a look at recent activity on QB!

 

Search Quotations Book


Nietzsche, Friedrich - 74px-Nietzsche1861.jpeg - 1861   Photos >>