179 Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche


The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche on wisdom

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

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche on wisdom

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Friedrich Nietzsche on women

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche on women

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche on women

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche on women

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

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

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche on addiction

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.
Friedrich Nietzsche on advice

People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Friedrich Nietzsche on freedom

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche on giving

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche on journey

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche on love

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?
Friedrich Nietzsche on marriage

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche on marriage

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Friedrich Nietzsche on punishment

Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche on success