Zitate von Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his spade aside; there is also something suspicious about it." Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hideout, every word also a mask.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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

The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized.