Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

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

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

No artist tolerates reality.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

There's no defense against stupidity.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.