Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.