Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

True, Know, Wanting, Faith

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Through, Shows, Lunatic, Faith

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Condition, Irrationality, Argument

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Father, Good Father, Dad, Create

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Will, Always, Individual, Yourself

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Purpose, Forget, Form, Stupidity

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Strong, Admiration, Striving

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Annoy, Anxious, Disposition

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Shadow, Bled, Remains

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Cease, Times, Opponents, Remains

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason, Over, Praised, Undeserved

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Play, Hidden, Wants, Child

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

More, Deepest, Than, Your Body

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Head, Deal, Solving, Tangle

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing, Give, Still, Oneself

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Good And Evil, Always, Occurs

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence, Consciousness, Perceived

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, Woman, Very, Antipathy

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirit, Nothing, Against, Worms

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, World, Away, Imaginary

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Always, Been, Which, Inward

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Words, Guarantee, Use, Inward

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, How, Almost, Bear

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friend, Shared, Make, Sufferings

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, Mind, Perpetually, Winged

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts, Always, Darker, Simpler

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Whose, Draw, Telegraph, Premises

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Worthless, Alike, Regarding

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Tone, Often, Which, Conveyed

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Paris, Artist, Except, Europe

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Aesthetic, Add, Naivete, Rests

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Art, Metaphysical, Imitation

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Present, Existence, Never, Imperfect

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Be True, Against, Last, Judgments

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

People, Interesting People, Missing

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Will, Gone, Though, Glance

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Exception, Most, Which, Relatively

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge, Dirty, Waters, Shallow

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Deep, Mystical, Shallow

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Dirty, Waters, Shallow

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Will, Against, Feels, Noisy

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Friendship, Blind, Love Is

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Appreciation, Rope, Souls, Strangle

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Man, Goal, Bridge

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Think, Through, Always, Consoling

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind, Last, Truths, Errors

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Idiot, Bad, Turns, In The End

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Given, Subject, All Things

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Every Day, Which, Least, At Least One

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Every Day, Which, Least, At Least One

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Keep, Hardest, Giver

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Church, Circumstances, Grave, Stone

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Confidence, Gift, Given, Inference

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Nation, Germany, Great Nation

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, More, Foes, Convictions

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Mountains, Will, Powers

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, More, Ah, Lows

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Guilt, Acute, Nevertheless, Witches

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman, Away, Virtues, Runs

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

Exist, Correct, Does, Right Way

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Survive, Some, Suffer, To Survive

The doer alone learneth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Alone, Graduation, Doer

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Eternity, Everyone, Which, Aphorism

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Process, Will, Fights, Gaze

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Words, Touch, Another, Relations

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Question, Will, Marrying

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Education, Reason, Always, Kitchens

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Kindness, Looks, Like, Malice

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Some, Made, Insolent

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Only, Equal, Still, Lesser

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Himself, Whoever, Despises

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason, Could, Humane, Respects

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason, Other, Afterwards, Alleviating

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Relax, Head, Creeds

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Step, Morality, Ashamed, Immorality

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Ideal, Witnessed, His, Inexorable

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Music, Enjoy, Themselves, Passions

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral, Interpretation, Only, Phenomena

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

About, Which, Polite, Genteel

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Go, Head, Too, Ought

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Future, Past, Influences, Just As Much

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Always, Provoked, His, Party

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Living, Loving, Love Life

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Art, Die, Order

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Voice, Been, Which, Expressed

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Emotion, Wit, Epitaph

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Impossible, One Thing, Rationality

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Deep, Discover, Considered, Women Are

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Deal, Hundred, Pockets, Great Deal

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Feeling, Will, Itself, Heightens

Love is not consolation. It is light.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Light, Consolation, Love Is

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Against, Indignation, Raises

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Positions, Contrary, Extreme, Moderate

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Think, Corrupt, Esteem, Surest Way

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason, Been, Which, Purchased

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Find, Only, Which, Hear

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Short, Times, Too, Thousand Times

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Boredom, Seventh, Would, Creation

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Bad, Through, Imitation

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgiveness, Condemn, Also, Pardon

Success has always been a great liar.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Success, Always, Been, Liar

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Cat, Like, I Care

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

See, Still, Keeping, Guessing

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Respect, Go, Over, Close

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Because, Loves, Hardest, Close

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Song, World, New, Rejoicing

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship, Someone, Over, Rejoicing

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Wishes, Himself, He, Exalted

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman, Bad, Last, Best Man

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Heat, Thoughts, Understand, Enter

Plato was a bore.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato, Bore

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?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Might, Fights, Hundred, Bore

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Own, Good Writer, His, Possesses

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Mind, Hundred, Loses

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

See, Necessary, Nor, Iron

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, Lies, Indignant, Boldly

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Stupid, Woman, Stupidity, Cowardly

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Aesthetic, Exist, Physiological

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, May, Tells, Accompanies

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Wisdom, His, To Love

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Mean, All Day, Awake

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom, Perhaps, Which, Appear

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Away, Almost, Deserves, Thereby

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion, Thought, Straight, Crooked

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Prepare, Philosopher, Which, Obligation

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

How, Songs, Russians, Evil

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory, Original, His, Thinker

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Most, Material, Worn-Out

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Mother, Need, Matches

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul, Essence, Very, Egoism

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Earth, Condition, Heaven

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Fact, Still, Read, Antiquity

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, Reality, Prolongs, Evils

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain, Will, Advantage, Endures

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Character, More, Than, Determined

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Drop, Certainly, German, Polish

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Cause, Unto, Even, Good Cause

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Living, Beware, Very, Saying

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

I Am, Climb, Whenever, Followed

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Die, Should, Longer, Proudly

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Will, Ashamed, Author, Become

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone, Making, Suffer, Contains

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Parent, Psychology, Idleness

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Learning, Learn, One Day, Flying

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Grateful, Worm, Gnawing, Forgotten

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?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Charge, Could, Sins

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Path, Goal, Stubborn, Chosen

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality, Christianity, Nor, Neither

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Original, Mobile, Every Man, Happens

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

How, Only, Would, Knows

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.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Fine Art, Divine, Piety, Knows

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind, Always, Contempt, Impersonal

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Hands, Always, Religious, Contact

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind, See, Reasons, Fanatics

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Ambition, Sentences, Ten

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman, Play, Reason, True Man

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Beautiful, Art, Essence, Beautiful Art

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity, Rare, Groups, Parties

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness, Rare, Groups, Parties

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity, Rare, Groups, Parties

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Why, Suffers, Invent, Laughter

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.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Process, Before, Learned, Suddenly

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Shame, Most, Humane, Spare

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Power, Desire, Demon

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Communicate, Like, Secrecy, Seal

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Innocence, Some, Admired, Whom

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Give, Will, Surely, Outset

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Fact, Established, Necessity

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness, Virtue, Everyone, Blame

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

More, Praise, Than, Blame

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Conscience, Evidence, Credibility

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Powerful, Person, Pair

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Conceal, About, Means, Oneself

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Christian, Been, Misunderstanding

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Before, Believes, Does, Effect

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Precisely, Wounded, Wound, Pride

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, I Love, His, Written

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Result, Even, Sphinx

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Lie, Doubly, Truth Is

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

World, Enough, Even, Destroy

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrogance, Offensive, Itself, Us

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Strength, Which, Does, Us

There are no facts, only interpretations.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Only, Interpretations, Facts

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Absolute, Eternal, Truths, Facts

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Need, Most, Torment, Sensual

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman, Always, Means, Child

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Human Being, Disease, Rather, Wagner

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Loved, Arrogant, Greatest

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe, Wants, Cannot, Praised

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Die, Immortality, Times, Dearly

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Better, Get, Even, Blunders

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Man, Blunders

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Marriage, Unhappy, Marriages

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Christian, World, Bad, Ugly

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Wish, Tenfold, Followers

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

You, Will, Able, Whatever

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Walking, Thoughts, Truly

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Relationship, Always, Madness

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, How, I Love, Live For Today

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Father, Dad, Does, Whoever

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Becoming, Once, Became, Mob

The lie is a condition of life.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Condition, Lie

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason, Take, Readily, Himself

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Give, Away, Either, Anything

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality, Individual

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

War, Against, Weapon, Enemy

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Because, Could, Were, Cannot

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Study, Having, Does, Desire

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Will, Last, Today

Art is the proper task of life.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Art, Proper, Task

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Look, Looks, Abyss, Also

Fear is the mother of morality.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear, Mother, Morality

Without music, life would be a mistake.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Music, Without, Would, Mistake

Woman was God's second mistake.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Woman, Second, Mistake

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, World, Will, Itself

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