Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Wish, Seek

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Die, Times, Alive

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Himself, Whoever, Respects

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Impossible, Talk

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Men, Wisest

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Great, Made, Others

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Sign, Annoy

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hand, Open, Close

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Last, Mankind, Truths

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride, Vanity, Hardest

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God, Why, Reason

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Person, Blood

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

Good, Art, Respect

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather, Against, Existence

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Facts, Eternal, Truths

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Him, Against

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

Good, War, Cause

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Himself, Wishes, Exalted

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything, Impossible

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral, Phenomena

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing, Against, Few

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Emotion, Wit, Epitaph

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

Freedom, Nothing, Sense

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

Women, Men, Sensual

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Deep, Thought

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 15, 1844

Died: August 25, 1900

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