We have art in order not to die of the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone learneth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. – Friedrich Nietzsche
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never know too precisely whom one has married. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is not consolation. It is light. – Friedrich Nietzsche