Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let your peace be a victory!”

“New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given the way people are, there may still be caves for...”

“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will" -- "unfree will" for that mat...”

“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

“You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so ten...”

“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where yo...”

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril.You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful.You long for t...”

“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or ...”

“Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relation...”

“What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved”

“philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.”

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

“The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough fo...”

“Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty and strength. In other words, the less one knows...”

“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one ...”