Top 216 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.