Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.