Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

"Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"One must need to be strong, else one will never become strong."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"'Every man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-Friedrich Nietzsche in Youth quotes.

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right."
-Friedrich Nietzsche in Nobility quotes.

"What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Some men are born posthumously."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"And we should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced at least once: And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
-Friedrich Nietzsche