Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”

“It takes less time to learn how to write nobly than how to write lightly and straightforwardly”

“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire”

“Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.”

“I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.”

“I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.”

“He should be praised for climbing; yetThe other man comes always from a heightAnd lives where praise can never get --Beyond your sight.”

“The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they havent any.”

“I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking”

“A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . . .”

“Possessions are usually diminished by possession.”

“A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us”

“So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.”

“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive”

“A subject for a great poet would be Gods boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

“Is Wagner actually a man? Is he not rather a disease? Everything he touches falls ill; he has made music sick”

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”

“All words are prejudices”

“Sarcasm helps keep you from telling people what you really think of them.”