Best Philosophical Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion.

Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

Human history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning contributions of the weak

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

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

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

We must know how to preserve ourselves: the greatest test of independence.

Ages of happiness. - An age of happiness is quite impossible because men want only to desire it but not to have it, and every individual who experiences good times learns to downright pray for misery and disquietude. The destiny of man is designed for happy moments - every life has them.

The man who is to be great is the one who can be the most solitary.

As though the truths were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in only that which never ceases hurting stays in the memory.