Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but (s)he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your love.

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget men who are the rule, as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.

With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody else's equal, 'At bottom we are all herd and mob.

the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semilla. He aquí la diferencia entre los que creen y los que disfrutan.

There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself - how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.

T]he mob is the most ruthless of tyrants;

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now!