Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

"The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities."

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?"

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

"The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Art is the proper task of life."

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."

"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

"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."

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

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