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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes: 129

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Twilight of the Idols
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
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.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.
Art is the proper task of life.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Human, All Too Human
Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.