Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

I have done that', says my memory. I cannot have done that—says my pride and remains unshakeable. Finally—memory yields.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Whatever they may think and say about their egoism, the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

O man! Attend! What does deep midnight's voice contend? I slept my sleep, And now awake at dreaming's end: The world is deep, And deeper than day can comprehend. Deep is its woe, Joy—deeper than heart's agony: Woe says: Fade! Go! But all joy wants eternity, Wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly – that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. War and courage have accomplished more great things than love of the neighbor. Not your pity but your courage has so far saved the unfortunate.

There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth

Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.

The worst mutilation of man that can be imagined presented as the good man.

Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.

For man to be redeemed from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms. Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

I would prefer to be a satyr rather than a saint.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something still capable of arousing fear! Of a man who justifies man , of a complementary and redeeming lucky hit on the part of man for the sake of which one may still believe in man!

The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, looking around to see if anybody notices it — and to make sure that somebody does.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you.

Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.

In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.