Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness”

“Where one despises, one cannot wage war. Where one commands, where one sees something beneath one, one ought not to wage war.”

“Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.”

“Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.”

“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”

“Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a womans game is mediocre”

“In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man”

“When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything”

“God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment -- but many other things ceased as well!”

“Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out”

“What is wanted / whether this is admitted or not / is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.”

“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the worlds religions”

“He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted”

“He who cannot lie does not know what the truth is”

“Plato was a bore.”

“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated - into vice”

“In heaven all the interesting people are missing”

“The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God”

“One ought to hold on to ones heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it”