Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

You shall become the person you are.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.