Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty—I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths—they haven't any.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Amor fati: that is my innermost nature. And as regards my long sickness, do I not owe to it unutterably more than I owe to my health?

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified.

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.

Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

My doctrine is: Live that thou mayest desire to live again—that is thy duty—for in any case thou wilt live again!

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Life always gets harder toward the summit—the cold increases, responsibility increases.