Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes

"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil."

"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."

"In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs"

"If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning"

"We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance."

"Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy"

"Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!"

"Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins."

"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

"I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music."

"Many find their heart when they have lost their head."

"Is Wagner actually a man? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touches falls ill; he has made music sick"

"The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man"

"The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man."

"Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover."

"How strangely simplified and falsified does man live! One does not cease to wonder, once one has eyes to see this wonder!"

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man"

"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man"

"There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil."

"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."