Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.”

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

“Woman was God’s second mistake.”

“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”

“What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?”

“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”

“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things, then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!”

“He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

“But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”

“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”

“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”

“I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers…”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.”

“Convictions are prisons.”

“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”

“Some are born posthumously.”

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.”

“.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”

“I am no man, I am dynamite.”

“There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all.”

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?… that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

“No artist tolerates reality.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”

“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…”

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”

“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches — and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts”

“The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”

“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”

“Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.”

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

“So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.”

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.”

“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!”