Friedrich Nietzsche Acts Quotations

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.