Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless" - and want to create no value themselves.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called freedom.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Love, too, has to be learned.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? Oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The wreckage of stars-I built a world from this wreckage.

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep - into the evil.