Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Every past is worth condemning.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Humility has the toughest hide.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it - right, my friends?

My genius is in my nostrils.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

In the end one only experiences oneself.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Human existence basically is - a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

Convictions are prisons.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

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?

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.