Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

“Doubt as sin. Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim ...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

“Madness is something rare in individuals but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“I am one thing, my writings are another.”

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

“Plato was a bore.”

“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers th...”

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embe...”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

“You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

“The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. ”

“I have forgotten my umbrella. ”

“I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and t...”

“Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinkin...”

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”