Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

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.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

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

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.