Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Success has always been the greatest liar, and the 'work' itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised in his creation to the point where he is unrecognizable.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.