Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death'.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth!

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

This freedom and heavenly cheer I have placed over all things like an azure bell when I taught that over them and through them no 'eternal will' wills. This prankish folly I have put in the place of that will when I taught: In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.