Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Every smallest step in the field of free thinking, and of the personally formed life, has ever been fought for at the cost of spiritual and physical tortures . . . change has required its innumerable martyrs. . . . Nothing has been bought more dearly than that little bit of human reason and sense of freedom that is now the basis of our pride.

My paradise is in the shadow of my sword.

Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree; indeed, it might be part of the essential nature of existence that to understand it completely would lead to our own destruction.

Yazar olmaya utanan en iyi yazar olacakt?r.

I live in my own light, I drink back into myself the flames that break from me

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities.

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost our old affinity: One has to change to stay akin to me.

O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!

The solitary speaks.One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the deepest immersion in oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the most potent refreshing draught from the deepest well of his own being.

No one tells me anything new, so I tell myself my own story.

This - is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way - does not exist!

God is a conjecture; but I desire that your conjectures should be limited by what is thinkable. Can you think a god? [...] You should think through your own senses to their consequences.

This is precisely why the Jews are the most disastrous people in world history: they have left such a falsified humanity in their wake that even today Christians can think of themselves as anti-Jewish without understanding that they are the ultimate conclusion of Judaism.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength

Excess of strength alone is proof of strength

history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning

It is the stillest words which bring the storm.

One must learn to love oneself- thus do I teach- with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.

If you still experience the stars as something over you, you still don't have the eyes of a knower.

Is language the adequate expression of all realities?

What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.