Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
“What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”
“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”
“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
“What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
Source: Thus Spake Zarathustra, a Book for All and None
“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
““Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?”
“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
“What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”
“What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.”
“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”
“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.”
“I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: A Nietzsche Reader