Nietzsche Quotes

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical...

For a brief moment I felt I was the older, the more mature."A gift of life," I responded, "if not to...

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of ...

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everyth...

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can ...

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be ...

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral...

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations ...

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things ar...

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we ha...

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neigh...

You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to your...

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes...

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes render...

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety:...

Of the spirit of women. - The spiritual power of a woman is best demonstrated by her sacrificing her...

They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world ...

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselv...

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of ...

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the ...

The conviction reigns that it is only through the sacrifices and accomplishments of the ancestors th...

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playf...

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of ...

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understoo...

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that ...

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend i...

I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble,...

All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that i...

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happ...

Your educators can only be your liberators.

Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt,...

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for...

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's d...

You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christia...

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...

At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the ...

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...