Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

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 being unjustly underestimated.

The melancholia of everything completed!

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.