Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”

“What is the seal of liberation? — No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.”

“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”

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

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”

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

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”

“He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.”

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”

“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”

“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”

“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.”

“A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”

“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”

“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.”

“Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?… you must knowyou want andyou want. Fourth question for the conscience.”

“The 'Kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart — not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.”

“Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time — in the form of legislation and customs.”

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”

“Destination and paths. Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination.”

“May I really say it! All truths are bloody truths to me—take a look at my previous writings.”

“Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainländer, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew”

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

“New Domestic Animals. I want to have my lion and my eagle about me, that I may always have hints and premonitions concerning the amount of my strength or weakness. Must I look down on them today, and be afraid of them? And will the hour come once more when they will look up to me, and tremble?”

“Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…”

“My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.”

“The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years”

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

“I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.”

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

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

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

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

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

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

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

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

“All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.”

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

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”