A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.——Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.——Friedrich Nietzsche
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.——Friedrich Nietzsche
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.——Friedrich Nietzsche
A sick man lives more carelessly when he is under medical supervision than when he is attending to his own health.——Friedrich Nietzsche
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.——Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
Actually, all our senses have become rather obscured, because we always analyze after the reason—what it means, and no longer what it is… More and more, what is symbolic substitutes for what exists…——Friedrich Nietzsche
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.——Friedrich Nietzsche
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.——Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are subject to interpretation; and whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a result of power and not truth.——Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.——Friedrich Nietzsche
An excellent quotation may spoil whole pages, and even a whole book. It seems to warningly cry to the reader, “I am the precious stone, and around me is pale, worthless lead.”——Friedrich Nietzsche
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.——Friedrich Nietzsche
As important as it may be know the actual motives that caused human conduct up until now, it may be of even greater significance to know the made-up and imaginary motives that people attributed their conduct to.——Friedrich Nietzsche
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief in truth begins with doubt of all truths in which one used to believe.——Friedrich Nietzsche
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!——Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity is called the religion of pity.——Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, Section 7
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.——Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?——Friedrich Nietzsche
During peaceful circumstances, the militant man attacks himself.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.——Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Every really productive thing is offensive.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Every word is a prejudice.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Excessive virtue can bring a nation to ruin just as much as excessive vice [can].——Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear is the mother of morality.——Friedrich Nietzsche
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.——Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.——Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
God is dead.——Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.——Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.——Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.——Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.——Friedrich Nietzsche
Hearing what is said about us everyday, or even endeavoring to discover what people think, will ultimately destroy even the strongest man.——Friedrich Nietzsche
How can anyone glorify and revere an entire people? It is the individuals that count…——Friedrich Nietzsche