Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The wisest men in every age have reached the same conclusion about life: it's no good ... What does this prove? What does it demonstrate? ... Perhaps wisdom appears on earth as a raven, inspired by a little scent of carrion?

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.