Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

No artist tolerates reality.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.