“On every parable you ride to every truth.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
“Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.”
“Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Source: Human, All Too Human
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
“Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.”
“We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.”
“Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.”
“Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.”
Source: Philosophy and truth: selections from Nietzsche's notebooks of the early 1870's
“It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.”
“It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.”