Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.Collection: Love
The doer alone learneth.Collection: Graduation
We have art in order not to die of the truth.Collection: Art
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.Collection: Men
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.Collection: Women
Woman was God's second mistake.Collection: God
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.Collection: Time
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.Collection: Education
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Friendship
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.Collection: Forgiveness
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.Collection: Religion
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Health
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.Collection: Great
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?Collection: Death
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.Collection: Truth
Success has always been a great liar.Collection: Great
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.Collection: Marriage
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Knowledge
The future influences the present just as much as the past.Collection: Future
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.Collection: War
There are no facts, only interpretations.Collection: Truth
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Collection: Truth
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.Collection: Love
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.Collection: Best
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.Collection: Courage
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Experience
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.Collection: Women
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Marriage
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.Collection: Dad
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.Collection: Dad
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.Collection: Truth
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.Collection: Truth
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.Collection: Truth
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.Collection: Music
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.Collection: Power
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Collection: Experience
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.Collection: Best
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.Collection: Freedom
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!Collection: Power
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.Collection: Men
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?Collection: God
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.Collection: Truth
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.Collection: Time
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.Collection: Respect
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?Collection: Wisdom