Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Man makes god in his own image.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!