Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
15
Woman was God's second mistake.
19
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
12
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
13
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
12
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
11
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
14
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
10
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
12
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
15
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
9
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
14
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
10
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
15
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
11
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.
12
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
9
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
9
The doer alone learneth.
14
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
13
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
11
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
15
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
12
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
14
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
14
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
13
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
15
It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.
16
Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
11
As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.
13
When thou goest to woman take thy whip.
11
Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
11
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
14
Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.
12
Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
9
When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.
11
Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.
16
The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.
14
Great intellects are skeptical.
11
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
11
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
10
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
11
When one has not had a good father one must create one.
14
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
12
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
13
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.
14
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
19
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
17