Ifs Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed .

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb,…

— 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

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition…

— 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

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

— Friedrich Nietzsche