Friendship Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

— 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

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Take care, ye philosophers and friends of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering "for the truth's sake"! even in your own…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche