Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Great intellects are skeptical.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

Only sick music makes money today.

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.