Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

653 Quotes on Love, Friendship, and the Intricacies of Human Relationships

Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Misattributed
First recorded appearance: Germaine de Staël's On Germany (1813). ". . . sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane." There are several other pre-Nietzsche examples, indicating that the phrase was widespread in the nineteenth-century; it was referred to in 1927 as an "old proverb".

Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
Maxims and Arrows, 33
Source: Twilight of the Idols (1888)

Sec. 232
Variant: We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way — not at all or in an interesting manner.
Source: The Gay Science (1882)

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
Variant: He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

I.303 http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&amp;q=&amp;quot;we+often+contradict+an+opinion+for+no+other+reason+than+that+we+do+not+like+the+tone+in+which+it+is+expressed&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA137#v=onepage <br class="br">Human, All Too Human (1878)

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Variant: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: This Spoke Zarathustra (Tak pravil Zarathustra)

… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)

Man verdirbt einen Jüngling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden höher zu achten, als den Andersdenkenden.
The Dawn, Sec. 297

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Was sagt dein Gewissen? <br class="br">&#x27;Du sollst der werden, der du bist.&#x27; <br class="br">Variant translation: Become who you are. <br class="br">It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;tbo=u&amp;tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&amp;hl=it&amp;safe=off&amp;biw=1440&amp;bih=690&amp;q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche. <br class="br">Sec. 270 <br class="br">The Gay Science (1882)

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Sec. 2
The Antichrist (1888)

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Ecce Homo, chapter Why I Am So Clever

Source: The Gay Science

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Way of the Creator.
Context: But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you ambush yourself in caverns and forests. You solitary one, you go the way to yourself! And your way leads you past yourself and your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself, and a sorcerer and a soothsayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes!

Notebooks (Summer 1886 – Fall 1887)
Variant translation: Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations…
As translated in The Portable Nietzsche (1954) by Walter Kaufmann, p. 458

Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
Foreword, in the Oscar Levy authorized translation.
Variant translations:
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Ecce Homo (1888)

I.580
Human, All Too Human (1878)

Sec. 179
The Gay Science (1882)

Variant: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him — even concerning his own body — in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key.

I.475
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Context: Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

Sec. 120 (Spring-Fall 1887)
The Will to Power (1888)
Context: More natural is our position in politics: We see problems of power, of one quantum of power against another. We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement: we feel all rights to be conquests.

Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm— zu langweilen?
Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter VII, 227

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra