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.

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 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

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

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Wedding, Cynical

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Modern, Lost

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

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

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Marriage, Fathers Day

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Infidelity, Quality

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.

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

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

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