Friedrich Nietzsche quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Climb.

"Art is the proper task of life."
Found in the topic Art.

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
Found in the topic Bore.

"Woman was God"s second mistake."
Found in the topic Mistake.

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
Found in the topic Friendship.

"If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism."
Found in the topic Faith.

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."
Found in the topic Age.

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
Found in the topic Death.

"When Zarathustra was alone ... he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!""
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"There are two things a real man likes ? danger and play. And he likes women because she is the most dangerous of playthings."
Found in the topic Man.

"Better know nothing than half-know many things."
Found in the topic Know.

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good."
Found in the topic Factory.

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
Found in the topic Impulse.

"The future influences the present just as much as the past."
Found in the topic Future.

"There is not even enough religion in the world to destroy the world"s religions."
Found in the topic Religion.

"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."
Found in the topic Action.

"Out of life"s school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
Found in the topic Destiny.

"In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that, one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks."
Found in the topic Aphorism.

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
Found in the topic Ambition.

"I tell you: one must have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in you."
Found in the topic Chaos.

Interesting Quotes

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald - US novelist (1896 - 1940)

Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to get over it!Peter de Jager