Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more.

A good book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Deutschland über alles - I fear that was the end of German Philosophy.

One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior

we must now and then be joyful in our folly, that we may continue to be joyful in our wisdom!

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

You have made danger your vocation; there is nothing contemptible in that. Now you perish of your vocation: for that I will bury you with my own hands

What does Nihilism mean?—That the highest values are losing their value.

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianity, for example.

You revere me: but what if your reverence should some day collapse? Be careful lest a statue fall and kill you!

To impose the character of being upon becoming is the supreme test of power.

How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out this origin and this misty shroud of delusion in order to destroy the world that counts for real, so-called 'reality.' We can destroy only as creators. -- But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new 'things.

One person is always too many around me.

first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ...

Our highest insights must – and should – sound like follies and sometimes like crimes when they are heard without permission by those who are not predisposed and predestined for them.

Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries to prevent this—although men have been said to have overcome snoring by sheer will power.

The God that Nietzsche imagined, in the end, was not far from the God that such an artist as Joseph Conrad imagines—a supreme craftsman, ever experimenting, ever coming closer to an ideal balancing of lines and forces, and yet always failing to work out the final harmony.

I am no man, I am dynamite

What makes Heroic? — To face simultaneously one's greatest suffering and one's highest hope.

Ich will keinen Autor mehr lesen, dem man anmerkt, er wollte ein Buch machen; sondern nur jene, deren Gedanken unversehens ein Buch werden.

From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance of beauty.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.