Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
Friedrich Nietzsche Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche Life quotes ⇑
Life Quotes
All Friedrich Nietzsche quotes ⇑
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.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.'
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.