Quotes by Nietzsche, Friedrich

"Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on ugliness   

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on uniqueness
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"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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on value   

"What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on vanity   

"We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on virtue   

"I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on vision   

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on walking
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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on war   

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wisdom   

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wisdom   

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wisdom
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"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on wit
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"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on writers and writing
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on action   

"Wherever there are walls I shall inscribe this eternal accusation against Christianity upon them -- I can write in letters which make even the blind see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity   

"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity
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"Christianity makes suffering contagious."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on christians and christianity
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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on life   

"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on civil rights   

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on conformity
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"Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on science   

"The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on creativity   

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing   

"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing
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"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on anger   

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"Star friendship.— We were friends and have become estranged. But this was right, and we do not want to conceal and obscure it from ourselves as if we had reason to feel ashamed. We are two ships each of which has its goal and course; our paths may cross and we may celebrate a feast together, as we did—and then the good ships rested so quietly in one harbor and one sunshine that it may have looked as if they had reached their goal and as if they had one goal. But then the almighty force of our tasks drove us apart again into different seas and sunny zones, and perhaps we shall never see one another again,—perhaps we shall meet again but fail to recognize each other: our exposure to different seas and suns has changed us! That we have to become estranged is the law above us: by the same token we should also become more venerable for each other! And thus the memory of our former friendship should become more sacred! There is probably a tremendous but invisible stellar orbit in which our very different ways and goals may be included as small parts of this path,—let us rise up to this thought! But our life is too short and our power of vision too small for us to be more than friends in the sense of this sublime possibility.— Let us then believe in our star friendship even if we should be compelled to be earth enemies."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship   

"One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made "

Nietzsche, Friedrich on   

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on atheism
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"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death   

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lie
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"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on
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"“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on freedom and being in the wrong   

" All good people are weak,they are good because they are not strong enough to be evil "

Nietzsche, Friedrich on good people   

" God,too decompose.God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god   

" Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws. "

Nietzsche, Friedrich on weakness   

"" What ? Is man merely a mistake of God's ? Or God merely a mistake of man's ?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god