Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Woman was God's second mistake.

The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't any.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Love is not consolation. It is light

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.