Matter Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The…

— 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

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack…

— Friedrich Nietzsche