Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Let us be careful, lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Is not life a hundred times too short for us-to bore ourselves?

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.