Friedrich Nietzsche was an influential German philosopher, widely known for his unconventional ideas on morality and religion. Although his ideas were controversial among traditional thinkers, he showed people the true nature of life and how people can shape their future with different thinking. No matter how young, rich or happy you are, Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy will have a lasting impact on your mind ...
His unparalleled, fierce literary style and stubborn willingness to challenge all orthodox beliefs and institutions have captivated and perplexed readers for more than a century. At times, it happened (and still does) that his words and the meaning of his ideas were misinterpreted.
Nietzsche phrases
Nietzsche is also one of the most cited writers who ever lived, so it is worth knowing some of his most famous quotes ... because it will make you see everything differently! They are philosofic phrases you will not leave you indifferent.
- Not only those who speak against what they know lie, but also those who speak against what they do not know.
- Whoever fights with monsters, let him take care of turning himself into a monster. When you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
- He who has a reason to live can face all the 'hows'.
- The real world is much smaller than the world of the imagination.
- The thinker knows how to consider things simpler than they are.
- What does not kill you makes you stronger.
- The worst word and the rudest letter are more polite than silence.
- Every conviction is a prison.
- The individual has always struggled not to be absorbed by the tribe. But no price is too high for the privilege of being yourself.
- Monkeys are too good for man to descend from.
- Hope is the worst of evils, it prolongs the torment of man.
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Some mothers need to have unhappy children, otherwise their maternal goodness cannot manifest.
- In this world of images created by ourselves, we have invented ourselves as a unit, as that which is constantly changing.
- Love and hate are not blind, but are blinded by the fire within them.
- Nothing more hypocritical than the elimination of hypocrisy.
- Marriage ends many short follies with long stupidity.
- Where you cannot love, pass by.
- The same as the tree. The more it wants to rise towards the height and towards the light, the more strongly its roots tend towards the earth, downwards, towards the dark, the deep, towards the evil.
- In love there is always some madness, but in madness there is always some reason.
- They also tend to be the kind to you. But that was always the cunning of the cowards. Yes, the cowards are clever!
- What bothered me the most is not that you lied to me but that, from now on, I will not be able to believe in you.
- The greatness of man is in being a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in man is that he is a transit and a sunset.
- Remorse is like a dog bite on a stone: nonsense.
- The destiny of men is made of happy moments, all life has them, but not of happy times.
- One forgets his fault after having confessed it to another, but usually the other does not forget it.
- Those who have loved man the most have always done him the most harm. They have demanded the impossible of him, like all lovers.
- Independence is not a right, it is a privilege that belongs to a minority.
- When suffering comes, look it in the face and face it.
- The most common lie is one with which people deceive themselves.
- Is man a fault of God, or God a fault of man?
- Intellectuality is measured not by intelligence, but by the doses of humor that it is capable of using.
- To become wise it is necessary to experience certain experiences, often dangerous.
- I need living companions, not corpses to carry.
- Life is too short to get bored.
- We are used to life because we like love.
- Hope is a much more powerful stimulant than luck.
- Sex is nothing more than a trap of nature so as not to extinguish us.
- Any idealism in the face of need is a delusion.
- It is only the questions with answers that we come to understand.
- Politics divides people into two groups: the instruments and secondly, the enemies.
- Parents have a lot to do to justify having children.
- The mouth may lie, but the grimace of the moment reveals the truth.
- Marriage ends many short follies with long stupidity.
- I firmly believe that animals see in men a being equal to them.
- A bad conscience is easily cured. Not bad reputation.
- Nobody learns, or even is taught to endure loneliness.
- It is perseverance that makes men great, not strength.
- What we do is never understood, it is only welcomed by praise or criticism.
- We come to love our desire, and not the object of it.
- The worth of a man is measured by the amount of loneliness he endures.
- Every fearful person does not know what it is to be alone. Behind its shadow there is always an enemy.
- The industrious races find great annoyance in enduring idleness.
- The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, but rather a condition of it.
- Have faith means not wanting to know the truth.
- War makes the victor stupid and the vanquished resentful.
- A married philosopher is, to put it bluntly, a ridiculous figure.
- Everything that is done for love is done beyond good and evil.
- Everyone who enjoys believes that what matters about the tree is the fruit, when in reality it is the seed. Here is the difference between those who believe and those who enjoy.
- God is dead, it seems that men murdered him.
Which of them did you like the most?