Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Truth Quotes, Believe Quotes

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

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A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

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One is punished best for one's virtues.

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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

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How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

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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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That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.

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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

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