Friedrich Nietzsche
93 quotations
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Fear is the mother of morality.
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.
Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.