Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”

“Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion. ”

“There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Dont ask, walk!”

“For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Wh...”

“Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.”

“The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to imaginesuch a state of things is painful to us! Re...”

“Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.”

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”

“There are so many futures still to dawn!”

“The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.”

“Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier -- their Christianit...”

“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”

“Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work...”

“There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.”

“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.”

“Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”

“Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical l...”

“Our way is upward, from the species across to the super-species. But the degenerate mind which says All for me is a horror to us.”