Friedrich Nietzsche on Wisdom Quotes

"The belly is the reason why man does not so readily take himself for a god."

"Most people do not want the truth. They only want the reassurance that what they believe is the truth."

"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones existence were a work of art."

"One must learn to love, one must learn to be kind, and this from childhood on; we must be patient with ourselves and our slow progress."

"Patience is the virtue of those who know they have a future; the desperate are always in a hurry."

"Slow is the experience of all deep wells: long must they wait until they know what fell into their depths."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"Greatness of soul is inseparable from cognitive patience and the ability to endure the long silence of growth."

"The Stoic identifies his own will with the will of the universe. This is a grand and noble pride, but it is also a profound delusion."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"The hunter of truth must be patient; he must be able to wait for years in the silence of the forest."

"To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both—a philosopher."

"Do not be in a hurry to reach the peak; the view from the slope is also part of the mountain's wisdom."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me makes me stronger."

"One should not want to see the harvest while one is still sowing the seeds; let the earth have its time."

"For the Stoic, the world is a divine whole, and everything that happens is necessary and good. This is the ultimate affirmation of life."

"I am not a man, I am dynamite."

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the brute also."

"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different."

"To be a philosopher is to be a master of slowness; we must learn to read ourselves slowly."

"The Stoics were the masters of self-overcoming, but they forgot that the body and its passions are also part of the self."

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster."

"Everything that is rare is for the rare. The Stoic path is not for the many, but for the few who can endure solitude."

"A man's maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play."

"Spirit is the life which itself cutteth into life: by its own agony doth it increase its own knowledge."

"Whatever is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

"To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is."

"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."