274 quotes
The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
Man shall be trained for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.
Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883)
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The Will to Power [Der Wille zur Macht (1888)
The best friend will probably get the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become “timeless.”
The "general welfare" is not the sphere of truth; for truth demands to be declared even if it is ugly and unethical.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
Der Fall Wagner (1888)
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891)
Is it not thy piety itself which no longer letteth thee believe in a God?
Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885)
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
Herren-Moral und Sklaven-Moral. [Master-morality and slave-morality.]
Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.
Twilight of the Idols (1889)
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.
The Dawn of Day (1881)
Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
The Gay Science (1882)
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
In proportion as an ideal world has been falsely assumed, reality has been robbed of its value, its meaning, and its truthfulness.
Ecce Homo (1908)
Man prefers to aspire to nonentity than to not aspire at all.
Ecce Homo (1908)