Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear is the mother of morality.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Every past is worth condemning.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is the cruelest animal.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Remorse. Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
– Friedrich Nietzsche