Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Woman was God's second mistake.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

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

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

Become who you are!

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.