Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!