Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

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

Plato was a bore.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

The noble soul reveres itself.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.