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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.”
“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
“Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.”
“Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.”
“Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.”
“The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.”
“Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.”
“The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.”
“The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.”
“It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.”
“A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.”
“We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.”
“Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.”
“Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?”
“The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.”
“We are all afraid of the truth.”
“Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?”
“Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!”
“What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.”
“The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!”