Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

“And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”

“There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”

“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.”

“From experience. That something is irrational is no argument against its existence, but rather a condition for it.”

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

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”

“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.”

“Only sick music makes money today.”

“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”

“Live dangerously.”

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”

“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

“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.”

“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”

“I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.”

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”

“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”

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

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”

“Plato is boring.”

“Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.”

“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”

“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”

“Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”

“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

“The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”

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

“There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”

“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”