Friedrich Nietzsche
291 quotes
Biography
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
"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."
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
"Success has always been a great liar."