Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive”

“Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm.”

“Always say the truth in sarcastic tones.”

“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.”

“If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip”

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”

“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.”

“Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.”

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

“To produce music is also in a sense to produce children”

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters”

“One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.”

“There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.”

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.”

“The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solemn vows.”

“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.”

“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.”

“All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue.”