Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Biography : German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet and philologist.
Born: 1844 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Quotes

Let it not be your honor henceforth whence you come, but where you go!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

The best way to begin each day well is to think upon awakening whether we could not give at least one person pleasure on this day.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

All of us harbour in ourselves hidden gardens and plantations;
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Become who you are!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

to be

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Background photo by Etienne Bösiger on Unsplash

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche /

And life itself confided this secret to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

life

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

My happiness should justify existence itself!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

One thing is needful. - To "give style" to one's character.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Since I grew tired of the chase
And search, I learned to find;
And since the wind blows in my face,
I sail with every wind.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

wind

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil /

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks /

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 Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil /

The higher we rise, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn /

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols /

strength

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols /

... but we want to be the poets of our life—first of all in the smallest, most everyday matters.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

The ignoble nature is distinguished by the fact that it keeps its advantage steadily in view, and that this thought of the end and advantage is even stronger than its strongest impulse.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Instinct

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy /

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human /

But in the loneliest desert the second metamorphosis occurs: the spirit here becomes a lion; it wants to capture freedom and be lord in its own desert.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Background photo by Roger Le Guen on flickr

Beware of spitting against the wind!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

wind

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