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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
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.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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 best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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.
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 man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The doer alone learneth.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Art is the proper task of life.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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.
The doer alone learneth.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.