Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

For a significant manwoman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

For believe me! - the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!… Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Open still remains a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.

Thinking evil is making evil.

What is done out of love is beyond Good and Evil