Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes and its meanings

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.

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

The doer alone learneth.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

Art is the proper task of life.

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

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The doer alone learneth.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

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

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

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.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

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

Woman was God's second mistake.

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.'

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

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

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Art is the proper task of life.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

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

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.

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

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Success has always been a great liar.

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

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

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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

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.

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

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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