Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

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

What does not kill him, makes him stronger.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age.

Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

There was really only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

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

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment—but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.

The doer alone learneth.

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.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.