Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever surpass itself.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Without music, life would be an error.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be.

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.