Able Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We should be able also to stand above morality58”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible…

— Friedrich Nietzsche