179 Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche


Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche on love

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche on love

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche on love

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche on love

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche on love

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

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 marriage

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

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

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 men

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 men

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

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 men

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche on men

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

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

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche on music

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche on music