Famous Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

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

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

“Art is the proper task of life. ”

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”

“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”

“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. ”

“You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.”

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.”

“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.”

“Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.”

“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the thoroughness of his understanding.”

“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.”

“Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies”

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

“Sensuality often hastens the Growth of Love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Emotionless is not coldness; it is simply the absence of expectation.