179 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche on age

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche on alone

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche on alone

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Art raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche on art

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche on best

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche on best

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Friedrich Nietzsche on best

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche on best

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche on best

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche on dad