Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

Sleep is no mean art.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.