Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Care, Short

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom, Inspired, Earth

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Others, Whole

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friend, Everything, Master

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, God, Cannot

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

Heart, Control, Head

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Respect, Enemy, Friend

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Deep, Why

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Beautiful, Nothing

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatest, Loved, Arrogant

Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Woman, Second

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Pain, Knows

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad, Night, Through

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Giving, Enough

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrogance, Offensive, Merit

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Bad, Made, Find

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Good, Conscience

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity, Rule, Nations

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear, Mother, Morality

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Short, Times

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Lie, Others, Lies

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Accept, Idea

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music, Enjoy, Themselves

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Truth, Die

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, God, After

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 15, 1844

Died: August 25, 1900

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