179 Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche


What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Nietzsche on good

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Nietzsche on great

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

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche on great

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

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche on great

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

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche on great

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche on great

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche on great

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 health

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche on history

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche on home

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche on hope

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche on knowledge

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

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche on knowledge

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche on learning

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche on life

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche on life