Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Beware of spitting against the wind!

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

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

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.