Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

“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.”

“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”

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

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier and simpler.”

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called "Ego."

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

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“Art is the proper task of life.”

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”

“Fear is the mother of morality.”

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”

“Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman, a rope over an abyss.”

“Live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!”

“He who laughs best today will also laugh last.”

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.”