Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.