Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example is easy to give but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says 'I do not have enough talent'. One has onl...”

“For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.”

“Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happenedthe gratitude of a convalescentfor convalescence was unexpected. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakene...”

“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. Behold, just now the world became perfect!thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and fi...”

“A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, if...”

“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one has given. One must have strong powers of imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality bound to the quality of the int...”

“The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.”

“Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman.”

“Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”

“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of d...”

“It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.”

“Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful but as something whic...”

“A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.”

“Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercour...”

“Giving style to ones character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until ever...”

“We ought to face our destiny with courage.”

“Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”