Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books. It is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

Only sick music makes money today.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

The sexes deceive themselves over one another: this happens because fundamentally they honour and love only themselves... Hence man wants woman to be peaceful-but woman, like a cat, is essentially not peaceful, however much she may have practised an appearance of peacefulness.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.