Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

The lie is a condition of life.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

I love those who do not know how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.