Friedrich Nietzsche
93 quotations
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
The lie is a condition of life.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Only sick music makes money today.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.