Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’