Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

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

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.