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.

Apologies Quotes: Friends, Love, Fights, Apologies, No Apologies, I’m sorry, Forgivness Quotes

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. 

Edgar Watson Howe

 

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. 

Red Auerbach

 

In some families, please is described as the magic word.  In our house, however, it was sorry. 

Margaret Laurence

 

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately.  It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.

Dan Heist

 

 

There's one sad truth in life I've found

While journeying east and west -

The only folks we really wound

Are those we love the best.

We flatter those we scarcely know,

We please the fleeting guest,

And deal full many a thoughtless blow

To those who love us best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

 

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Attributed to Baroness Orczy

 

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

Isaac Friedmann

 

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. 

Paul Boese

 

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. 

Chinese Proverb

 

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 

William Blake

 

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Lois Wyse

 

True friends stab you in the front. 

Oscar Wilde

 

A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. 

G.K. Chesterton

 

Never apologize and never explain - it's a sign of weakness.

John Wayne

 

An apology is the superglue of life.  It can repair just about anything. 

Lynn Johnston

 

 

It is a good rule in life never to apologize.  The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. 

P.G. Wodehouse

  

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

King Charles I

Virgil Quotes

Publius Vergilius Maro

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Grecians, even bearing gifts.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

A snake lurks in the grass.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

They can do all because they think they can.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.

Death's brother, Sleep.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Audentes fortuna iuvat Fortune favours the brave.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Trust one who has gone through it.

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. They can conquer who believe they can.

Dating Quotes

"When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows."
Frederick Ryder

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
Katharine Hepburn

"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."
Theodor Reik

“I don't conquer, I submit.”
Giacomo Casanova

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship -- never."
Charles Caleb Colton

"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
Woody Allen

“There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men think, ‘I know what I’m doing. Just show me somebody naked.”
Jerry Seinfeld

“When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.”
Scott Wolf

"A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
Olin Miller

"Men always want to be a woman's first love -- women like to be a man's last romance."
Oscar Wilde

“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
Scott Adams

Love and Persistence...Life and Persistence

This quote:

"The art of love... is largely the art of persistence."
Albert Ellis


is also applicable to life, don't you think?

"The art of life...is largely the art of persistence."

The Little Prince Quotes

French: Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to have to explain things to them always and forever.


French: Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

French: Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides.... On ne peut pas mourir pour vous.
You are beautiful, but you are empty... One could not die for you.

French: Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

French: Quand on veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'on existe.
If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.


French: Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète.
When you've finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.


French: J'aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil...
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...


French: On ne sait jamais!
One never knows!


French: C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli.
It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

Le langage est source de malentendus.
Language is the source of misunderstandings.

French: Les enfants seuls savent ce qu'ils cherchent.
Only children know what they are looking for.