Zitate von Friedrich Nietzsche über die Liebe

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce great men --this and nothing else is its duty

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Happiness: Being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Every past is worth condemning.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted to madness.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired, and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.