Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Sit as little as possible; give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while one moved about freely - in which the muscles are not celebrating a feast, too: all prejudices come from the intestines. The sedentary life - as I have said once before - is the real sin against the holy spirit.

This - is now my way, - where is yours? Thus did I answer those who asked me 'the way.' For the way - it doth not exist!

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Art is the proper task of life.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.