Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great minds are skeptical.

The earth, said he, has a skin, and this skin has diseases. One of these diseases, for example, is called man.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.

The greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of purpose.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?