Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Death
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.Collection: Faith
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Future
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.Collection: Art
In music the passions enjoy themselves.Collection: Music
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'Collection: Death
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.Collection: Home
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Collection: Religion
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.Collection: Hope
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.Collection: War
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.Collection: Great
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.Collection: Great
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.Collection: Power
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.Collection: Great
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.Collection: Wisdom
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.Collection: Men
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.Collection: Friendship
Without music, life would be a mistake.Collection: Life
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.Collection: Men
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.Collection: History
Art raises its head where creeds relax.Collection: Art
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.Collection: Love
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.Collection: Religion
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.Collection: Great
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.Collection: Truth
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.Collection: Truth
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?Collection: Truth
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.Collection: Life
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.Collection: God
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?Collection: Men
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.Collection: Love
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.Collection: Truth
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Learning
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Chance
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.Collection: Relationship
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.Collection: Strength
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.'Collection: Art
Fear is the mother of morality.Collection: Fear
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.Collection: Truth
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.Collection: Women
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.