Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly," then they need to search.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.