Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

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

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

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

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.