Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.