Quotes by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Not every end is the goal. The end of a melody is not its goal, and yet if a melody has not reached its end, it has not reached its goal.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us—or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

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.

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labor more valuable

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Morality negates life.

When we have to change an opinion about anyone, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

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

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

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

Through words and concepts, we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.