He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the origin of your virtue.When you are above praise and blame, and your will wants to command...
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to de...
He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the...
I am one thing, my writings are another.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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 suc...
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
The heaviest burden: What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a...
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by b...