Top 2506 Quotes & Sayings by Friedrich Nietzsche - Page 2
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Art is the proper task of life.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
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.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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.
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.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
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.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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