Peace Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This book is intended for calm readers.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let your peace be a victory!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the good war that hallows every cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under the magic of the Dionysian, not only does the bond between man and man lock itself in place once more, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“we know the way; we got our knowledge of it from thousands of years in the labyrinth. Who else has found it?—The…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu…

— Friedrich Nietzsche