Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Biography : German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Quotes

Men press towards the light, not so as to see better, but so as to shine better.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

light

Those Greeks were superficial – out of profundity!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Everything that is profound loves the mask.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil /

mask

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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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.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Healthy is who can't recall.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Your own senses you shall think to the end!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn /

Are you a new strength and a new right? A first motion? A self-rolling wheel? Can you even compel the stars to revolve around you?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil /

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols /

thought

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, you need long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken, big and tall.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

There is today perhaps no more firmly credited prejudice than this: that one knows what really constitutes the moral.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn /

Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Body am I, and soul'–so says the child. And why should one not speak like children?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

To a Friend of Light
If you want to spare your eyes and your mind,
follow the sun from the shadows behind.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil /

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

water

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

wisdom

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

love

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

love

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.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

love

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