Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.