Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - per Topic

Nietzsche Quotes on Women





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





Woman was God's second mistake.





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





Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.





Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.





If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.





For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.





Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.







Nietzsche Quotes on the Body





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







Nietzsche Quotes on Friends





A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.





Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.







Nietzsche Quotes on Love/Relationships/Marriage





A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.





Love is not consolation. It is light.





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





Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.





Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.





When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.





Nietzsche Quotes on God and Faith





There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.





A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.





Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.





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





A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.





I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.





Faith: not wanting to know what is true.







Nietzsche Quotes on Striving





Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.





To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.





Nietzsche Quotes on Truth & Interpretation





It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.





You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.





The lie is a condition of life.





There are no facts, only interpretations.





All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?





All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.







All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.





There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.









Nietzsche Quotes on Science & Philosophy





All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.







Nietzsche Quotes on Thinking





All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.







Nietzsche Quotes on Guilt





Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.







Nietzsche Quotes on Life, Living Life to the Fullest, Laugh, Dance





And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.





We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.





Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.





Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.







I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."





I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.





He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.





Nietzsche Quotes on Art





Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.





Without music, life would be a mistake.





We have art in order not to die of the truth.





You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.







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





Art raises its head where creeds relax.







Art is the proper task of life.





Nietzsche Quotes on Cause/Effect





Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.