Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

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.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

No artist tolerates reality.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Fear is the mother of morality.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

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

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

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

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

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