Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.