Philosophy Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.”

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”

“To be unable to take his enemies, his misfortunes and even his misdeeds seriously for long – that is the sign of strong, rounded natures with a superabundance of a power which is flexible, formative, healing and can make one forget...”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“We shouldn’t use ‘should’ too much.”

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

“As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.”

“Bad men rule by the feebleness of the ruled; and this is just; the triumph of weaklings would not be just.”

“In weariness, existence is like the reminder of a commitment to exist, with all the seriousness and harshness of an irrevocable contract. One has to do something, one has to aspire after and undertake [...] In weariness we want to escape existence itself, and not only one of its landscapes in a longing for more beautiful skies. An evasion without an itinerary and without an end, it is not trying to come ashore somewhere.”