Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

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

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

Man is something to be surpassed.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.