Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

On every parable you ride to every truth.