Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
SufferingRevengeBlame It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
LoveMadnessReason There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
HumanityLimitationSelf-PerceptionDivinity The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Self-ControlRationalityDeliberationDebate Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
LovePerspectiveClarity A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
PardonCondemnationDuality If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
ReligionPurityDisapproval After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
CriticismContaminationDisease Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
InterpretationPowerTruth All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
EducationQualityScalePublic Services In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
ConformityGroupthinkIndividualitySocial Influence When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
HumanityCompassionLearningWisdom There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
ProductivityOpportunityPotentialResourcefulness When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Self-DeceptionLies The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
WarCauseRighteousness You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
HateValuePerceptionEquality We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
SincerityAuthenticityPassion Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
ExperiencePresenceSelf-Observation Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
SufferingSenselessnessMeaning What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
FriendshipPlatonic RelationshipsAttraction 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.
CautionIntegrityLife's ValueFulfillment He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
ExtremismModerationPolarization Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Gender StereotypesStupidityWomen Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
JudgmentsTruthPerspectiveCritique Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
FaithDoubtProof A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
IndividualitySocietyInsanity Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
PerspectiveClarityTimelessness Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
PowerWillpowerGood What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
ForgetfulnessOvercoming MistakesPeace Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
CourageTransformationSelf-Acceptance The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
ReligionCritiqueSuppressionInstitutions Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
LearningExperienceHindsightForesight When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
PraiseBlameConscienceJudgmentIntegrity Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
ImmortalitySacrificeTransformationResilience One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
SecrecyCommunicationHuman Nature There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
IndividualityPerspectiveOpen-mindednessPersonal Path You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.