Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”

“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”

“You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.”

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”

“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“The pure soul is a pure lie.”

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

“I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.”

“Every one who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”

“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.”

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

“Morality is herd instinct in the individual.”

“Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.”

“To find everything profound — that is an inconvenient trait.”

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

“In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

“One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.”

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”

“Success has always been a great liar”

“The overman… Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.”

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”