Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

A few hours' mountain climbing turn a rogue and a saint into two rather equal creatures. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity-and liberty is added eventually by sleep.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right-especially when one is right.

I have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

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.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence: Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Socialism is the visionary younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.