Selected Quotes By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Happiness is the feeling that power increases — that resistance is being overcome."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Happiness
"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 Wilhelm Nietzsche, Freedom
"The free man is a warrior."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Freedom
"Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Wealth
"Truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Truth
"People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Life
"Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Goals
"Forgetting our intentions is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Goals
"We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anger and Fighting
"Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Work
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friendship
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Love
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friendship
"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anger and Fighting
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Anger and Fighting
"I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Power
"Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous."