Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

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

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

The pure soul is a pure lie.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Man is something to be surpassed.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.