Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.-Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where his happiness lies.

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.

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

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.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

But perhaps this is the greatest charm of life: it puts a gold-embroidered veil of lovely potentialities over itself, promising, resisting, modest, mocking, sympathetic, seductive. Yes, life is a woman!

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

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.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.