Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.