Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?