Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

“The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.”

“Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.”

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

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

“In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs”

“Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.”

“The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.”

“The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.”

“Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.”

“With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.”

“It is the evening that questions thus from within me.”

“History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.”

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

“Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.”

“I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!”

“You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.”

“Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.”

“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”

“We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.”

“Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.”

“As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.”

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

“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.”

“To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.”

“Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.”