Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Order Quotes, People Quotes

In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.

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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

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O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

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The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

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One has to know the size of one's stomach.

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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

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A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

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God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

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Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

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Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

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