179 Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche


Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche on dad

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Friedrich Nietzsche on death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche on death

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche on education

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche on education

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche on experience

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche on experience

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche on faith

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche on faith

Fear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche on fear

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche on food

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche on forgiveness

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche on freedom

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche on friendship

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche on friendship

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche on friendship

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche on friendship

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche on future

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche on future

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche on god