Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.”

“Ich lehre euch den bermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas, das berwunden werden soll. Was habt ihr gethan, ihn zu berwinden? Was ist der Affe fr en Menschen? Ein Gelchter oder eine schmerzliche Scham. U...”

“Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!”

“Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.”

“Dove la moralit troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

“At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to ...”

“A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79”

“The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.”

“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the Beyond into nothingness one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all...”

“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

“Music heals all forms of misery”

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”

“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”

“A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to fol...”

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”