Friedrich Nietzsche
93 quotations
Plato was a bore.
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Great intellects are skeptical.
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Success has always been a great liar.
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.