Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Evil men have no songs. How is it that the Russians have songs?