Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

To have and to want more that is life.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.