Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

There are people who want to make mens lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Is man one of Gods blunders? Or is God one of mans blunders?

Woman was Gods second mistake.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have ones experiences in common.

Fear is the mother of morality.