Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
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You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
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The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
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The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
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With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
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In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
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If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
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One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.
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Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
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For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
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If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
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Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.
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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
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One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.
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Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.