Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

At the core of all these aristocratic races the beast of prey is not to be mistaken, the magnificent blond beast, avidly rampant for spoil and victory.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Every tradition grows ever more venerable—the more remote is its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Only sick music makes money these days.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.