Top 15 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.

Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.