Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Woman was God's second mistake.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

No one accuses without an underlying notion of punishment and revenge, even when he accuses his fate or himself. All complaint is accusation, all self-congratulation is praise.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

But to show you my heart fully, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear to be not a god! Therefore, there are no gods.

The doer alone learneth.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man!

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Against that positivism which stops at phenomena, saying 'there are only facts,' I would say: No, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.

I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.