Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The free man is a warrior.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love...

For, truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen...

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.