Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that being is merely a continual has been, a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

We deny God; in denying God, we deny accountability: only by doing that do we redeem the world. –

In all willing it is absolutely a question of commanding and obeying, on the basis, as already said, of a social structure composed of many "souls," on which account a philosopher should claim the right to include willing-as-such within the sphere of morals—regarded as the doctrine of the relations of supremacy under which the phenomenon of "life" manifests itself.

Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?

Have I been understood??Dionysus against the crucified one...

The same causes which tend to promote the belittling of men, also force the stronger and rarer individuals upwards to greatness.

For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star!

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may perish through a small matter: thus he goes willingly over the bridge.

It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe-inspiring caricatures:

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!

And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which German philosophy--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

Prejudice of the learned. – The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.

They would have to sing better songs to make me believe in their Redeemer; his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.

Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Sometimes just a stronger pair of glasses will cure an amorous man.

The pure soul is a pure lie. So long as the priest, that professional denier, calumniator and poisoner of life, is accepted as a higher variety of man, there can be no answer to the question, What is truth? Truth has already been stood on its head when the obvious attorney of mere emptiness is mistaken for its representative.

Awake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with stealthy wings, and to subtle ears good tidings are proclaimed.

One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.

They all want to get to the throne: this is their madness—as if happiness were sitting on the throne! Often it is mud that sits on the throne—and often the throne also sits on mud.