Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

Man must become better and more evil.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.