Quotes by

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Success has always been a great liar. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche