Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Might Change The Way You See The World

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Gratitude pours forth continually as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…

Great intellects are skeptical.

The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers.

It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have improved.

When death brings, at last, the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

If you want to depress and minimize man's capacity for pain, well, you must also depress and minimize his capacity for enjoyment.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy.” In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

You force all things to flow towards you and into you so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love.

Humor is just schadenfreude with a clear conscience.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.