Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

...good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss.
A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

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

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

"The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the "good man"."

It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will to ignorance. You need to grasp that without this kind of ignorance life itself would be impossible, that it is a condition under which alone the living thing can preserve itself and prosper: a great, firm dome of ignorance must encompass you.

This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found — I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough, — I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race...

...aesthetischen Sokratismus...dessen oberstes Gesetz ungefähr so lautet: "alles muss verständig sein, um schön zu sein"; als Parallelsatz zu dem sokratischen "nur der Wissende ist tugendhaft."