"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters." Friedrich Nietzsche
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend." Friedrich Nietzsche
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" Friedrich Nietzsche
"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche
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| Nietzsche in Basel, ca. 1875 |
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism, nihilism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition. His key ideas include the death of God, the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation", which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent and radical those views might be.
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"Faith: not wanting to know what is true." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." Friedrich Nietzsche
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings." Friedrich Nietzsche
"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art raises its head where creeds relax." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer." Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art." Friedrich Nietzsche
"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think." Friedrich Nietzsche
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." Friedrich Nietzsche
"I love those who do not know how to live for today." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience." Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god." Friedrich Nietzsche
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." Friedrich Nietzsche
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris." Friedrich Nietzsche
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." Friedrich Nietzsche
"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood." Friedrich Nietzsche
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises." Friedrich Nietzsche
"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?" Friedrich Nietzsche
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." Friedrich Nietzsche
"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted." Friedrich Nietzsche
"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is the proper task of life." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love is not consolation. It is light." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." Friedrich Nietzsche
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Success has always been a great liar." Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" Friedrich Nietzsche
"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing." Friedrich Nietzsche
"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one." Friedrich Nietzsche
"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate." Friedrich Nietzsche
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman." Friedrich Nietzsche
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." Friedrich Nietzsche
"You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause." Friedrich Nietzsche
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." Friedrich Nietzsche
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Woman was God's second mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In music the passions enjoy themselves." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement." Friedrich Nietzsche
"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!" Friedrich Nietzsche
"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual." Friedrich Nietzsche
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad." Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." Friedrich Nietzsche
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are no facts, only interpretations." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Plato was a bore." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is the proper task of life." Friedrich Nietzsche
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The doer alone learneth." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?" Friedrich Nietzsche
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it." Friedrich Nietzsche
"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive." Friedrich Nietzsche
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything." Friedrich Nietzsche
"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night." Friedrich Nietzsche
"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?" Friedrich Nietzsche
"What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame." Friedrich Nietzsche
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." Friedrich Nietzsche
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect." Friedrich Nietzsche
"We have art in order not to die of the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." Friedrich Nietzsche
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." Friedrich Nietzsche
"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Without music, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Idleness is the parent of psychology." Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." Friedrich Nietzsche
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The future influences the present just as much as the past." Friedrich Nietzsche
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." Friedrich Nietzsche
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!" Friedrich Nietzsche
"In everything one thing is impossible: rationality." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless." Friedrich Nietzsche
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." Friedrich Nietzsche
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one has not had a good father, one must create one." Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions." Friedrich Nietzsche
"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?" Friedrich Nietzsche
"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded." Friedrich Nietzsche
"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."" Friedrich Nietzsche
"Fear is the mother of morality." Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." Friedrich Nietzsche
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" Friedrich Nietzsche
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The lie is a condition of life." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion." Friedrich Nietzsche
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art raises its head where creeds relax." Friedrich Nietzsche
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He." Friedrich Nietzsche
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