Friedrich Nietzsche

music life mistake

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

kill strong

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

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

way correct exist

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

heaven interesting people

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

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

facts interpretations

“There are no facts, only interpretations; and this too is an interpretation.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

snake skin opinion mind

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

insanity individual group party nation madness

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

man cruel animal

“Man is the cruelest animal.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

god man mistake

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

faith truth

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

thoughts - feelings shadows

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

deep thinker understood misunderstood

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

art truth die

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

two types people know believe

“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

thinking walking

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

christian truth died cross

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Amor Fati - love your fate

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

teach fly fall faster

“Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

construct bridge stream life you alone

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone".

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

God crude prohibition thinkers

"God is a crude answer, a piece of indelicacy against us thinkers—fundamentally even a crude prohibition: you shall not think"

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Nitimur in vetitum

"Nitimur in vetitum"

("we strive after the forbidden")

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

corrupt esteem like different

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

reaction distrust favourable

"Let us distrust our first reactions, they are invariably much too favourable"

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

music life mistake

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

hundred men together mind lose

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

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

fight monster process become

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

victory science scientific method

"It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science."

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

goal journey vocation purpose objective stupidity indulge

"Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves."

― Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)