Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

Fear is the mother of morality.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.