Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law to our to-day.

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

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

The nobility of the soul makes itself known by admitting its egoism without consciousness, without remorse, without self-deception.

At the risk of displeasing innocent ears I submit that egoism belongs to the essence of a noble soul.