Source: The Portable Nietzsche
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”
“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”
“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: The Will to Power
“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
Source: The Will to Power
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: Human, All Too Human
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
Source: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past
“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”
“A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”
“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”