Nietzsche Quotes: 97 of his Cleverest Statements

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

If we have our own ‘why’ of life, we can bear almost any ‘how.’

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Hold the capacity of feeling to be the most important and elemental, as providing the foundation for every sound and real growth; everything that is truly great and human.

The sedentary life is the real sin against the holy spirit.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat.

Every word is a prejudice.

One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.