Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorica...”

“How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?”

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration []...”

“Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value."This unconditional will to truthwhat is it? Is it the will not to allow oneself to be deceived? ...”

“There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.”

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of...”

“When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.”

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”

“The final reward of the dead - to die no more”

“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”

“Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.”

“...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.”

“Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.”

“It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book and that he did not learn it better.”

“How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.”

“One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!”

“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities, of voices: how much enjoyment, impatience and desire, how much thirsty li...”

“Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.”