Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

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

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

Love, too, has to be learned.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.