Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Aspirations, Hope
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Dancing, Relaxation, Dance
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Oppression
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Wisdom
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Mistakes
Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Art
Fear is the mother of morality.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Fear
Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Attitude
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Boredom, Life, Courage
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Hate
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Praise
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Humility
A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Politics, Politicians
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects .
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Anticipation
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Wisdom
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Cynicism, Honesty
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend’s emancipator.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Self-Discovery
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Perseverance, Truth
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Reason
It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Conscience, Reputation
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Spirit
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Atheism
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Confidence
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power thereto in his own hell.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Paradise
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Actual philosophers… are commanders and law-givers: they say “thus it shall be!”, it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past—they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their “knowing” is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is—will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Philosophy
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Sleep
One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Marriage
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Promises
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher
- Martin Heidegger German Existential Philosopher
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi German Philosopher
- Immanuel Kant Prussian German Philosopher
- Immanuel Hermann Fichte German Philosopher
- Wilhelm von Humboldt German Statesman, Scholar
- Johann Gottfried Herder German Critic, Poet
- Moses Mendelssohn German Jewish Philosopher
- Hannah Arendt German-American Political Theorist
- Nikos Kazantzakis Greek Novelist, Statesman
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