F

Friedrich Nietzsche

121 quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic whose work has profoundly influenced Western philosophy and intellectual history. Known for bold ideas about morality, religion, and the human condition, Nietzsche challenged conventional thinking with concepts like the "will to power" and the "Übermensch."

“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men

All Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dad

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“The doer alone learneth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Alone

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship

“A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great

“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Time

“Woman was God's second mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God

“All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Future

“In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Best

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life

“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art

“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women