Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Therefore he gives man hope, in reality it is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Women can enter into friendship with a man perfectly well; but in order to maintain it the aid of a little physical antipathy is perhaps required.

When one has one’s wherefore of life, one gets along with almost every how.

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

From the senses originate all trustworthiness, all good conscience, all evidence of truth.

Young people love what is interesting and exceptional, indifferent whether it is truth or falsehood. Riper minds love what is interesting and extraordinary when it is truth. Matured minds, finally, love truth even in those in whom it appears plain and simple and is found tiresome by ordinary people, because they have observed that truth is in the habit of giving utterance to its highest intellectual verities with all the appearance of simplicity.

Words are vocal symbols for ideas; ideas, however, are more or less definite mental symbols for frequently returning and concurring sensations, for groups of sensations. It is not sufficient to use the same words in order to understand one another: we must also employ the same words for the same kind of internal experiences, we must in the end have experiences in common.

Woman was the second mistake of God.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she — forget now to charm.