Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Love

What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys

Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Whoever does not believe himself always lies.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

When the center of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in “the beyond”—in nothingness—then one has taken away its center of gravity altogether.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings.

A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part. The only excess of strength is proof of strength.

The greatness of character consists in having one’s feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.