Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
18 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher whose works on power, morality, and the 'Übermensch' profoundly influenced Western philosophy, liter….
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”
“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”
“I know my lot. One day my name will be linked to the memory of something monstrous — to a crisis like none there has been on earth, to the most profound collision of conscience, to a verdict invoked against everything that until then had been believed, demanded, held sacred. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.”
“All these bold birds who fly out into the wide, widest open — it is true! At some point they will not be able to fly any farther and will squat down on some pylon or sparse crag — and very grateful for this miserable accommodation to boot! But who would want to conclude from this that there was no longer a vast and prodigious trajectory ahead of them, that they had flown as far and wide as one could fly! All our great mentors and precursors have finally come to a stop... Of what concern, however, is that to you and me! Other birds will fly farther!”
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
“From life's school of war: what does not kill me makes me stronger.”
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it — but love it.”
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
