Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
German philosopher. His critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.
(1844 - 1900)
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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. . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
[Friendship]
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
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A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
[Politicians]
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A profession is the backbone of life.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
[Art]
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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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.
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All that is straight lies. All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.
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