Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

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

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

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?

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.