Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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 one's experiences in common.
