Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Marriage

• When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Birthday, Marriage

• Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Two

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.53, Algora Publishing

• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

• What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Understanding

• A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Powerful

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.179, Courier Corporation

• The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Best Friend, Marriage

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

• At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Interesting, Conversation

• Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Cohabitation, Has Beens

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 123, 1886.

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Couple, Together

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.175, Courier Corporation

• Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Taken, Married

• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Fathers Day

• Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Spiritual, Husband

• Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Mother

• It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Marriage, Gone

• Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Modern, Lost

• One should never know too precisely whom one has married

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Wedding, Cynical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.287, Penguin

• For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Believe, Guilty Conscience

• The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Infidelity, Quality

• Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, People, Great Love

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