Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The doer alone learneth.

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.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. 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 death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart - not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.