Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The lie is a condition of life.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Plato was a bore.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?