Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

Be yourself! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

All is alike, nothing is worth while, knowledge strangleth.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men-as well as his great moments of grand harmony-a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.

Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.