Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.