Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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

Knowledge, Truth, Step

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 Nietzsche

Life, True, Last

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Dirty, Shallow

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Might, Found, Innocence

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Human, Blame, Everyone

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Death, Saying

Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Success, Great, Liar

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whose, Press, Machine

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Mind, Together

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Words, Another

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Present, Existence, Imperfect

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Truth, Give

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Men, Reason

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dad, Good, Father

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friend, Shared, Sufferings

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Dance, Knows

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Him, Existence

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Education, Alone, Doer

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, War, Lies

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Bad, Evil

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Lies, Boldly, Indignant

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Become, Writer

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

Future, Past, Present

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 15, 1844

Died: August 25, 1900

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