Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the great stimulus to life.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

We can destroy only as creators.

No artist tolerates reality.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception".

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

At heart I am a warrior.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame).