274 quotes
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness — that means cynically and with innocence.
I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885)
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Brave, unconcerned, mocking, violent—thus wisdom wants us: she is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
Between two vices, virtue does not always dwell, but often, but all too often only weakness and lame impotence.
The "Kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart — not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death".
The Antichrist (1888)
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book.
Twilight of the Idols (1889)
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.
The Gay Science (1882)
God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
The Gay Science (1882)
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Nietzschean Narratives (1989)
A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Human, All Too Human (1878)
All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward — this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his "soul."
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.
These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal!!
Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
What does not kill him, makes him stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man?
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, epochs it is the rule.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: it is called pregnancy.