Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

ìIdleness is the parent of all psychologyî

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy

Nothing is beautiful, except man alone: all aesthetics rests upon this naÔvetÈ, which is its first truth. Let us immediately add the second: nothing is ugly except the degenerating manóand with this the realm of aesthetic judgment is circumscribed.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.