Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

“Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.”

“Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a mans existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.”

“The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart -not something that comes upon the earth or after death.”

“Christianity makes suffering contagious”

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

“‘the doer’ is merely a fiction added to the deed – the deed is everything.”

“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.”

“There are no eternal facts as there are no eternal truths”

“Man is more ape than many of the apes”

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

“The doer alone learneth.”

“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”

“The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.”

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”

“There is no knowledge of true being. The world is fundamentally in a state of becoming.”

“The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

“What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.”

“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”