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Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
  • If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
  • That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
  • There are no facts, only interpretations.
  • And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.
  • The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
  • He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
  • The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
  • Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
  • The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
  • At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
  • One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
  • In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
  • Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
  • Only sick music makes money today.
  • It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them
  • Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
  • Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
  • What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do
  • Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
  • There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
  • The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.