Authors - Friedrich Nietzsche
Brief Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, cultural critic and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1028by Anonymous on 09/01/2011
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Quote 1236by Anonymous on 11/01/2011
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Quote 1373by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Quote 1502by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Quote 1708by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.
Quote 1842by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
Everything done in weakness fails. Moral: Do nothing.
Quote 2212by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.
Quote 2219by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Quote 3032by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Quote 3235by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Quote 3246by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Quote 3300by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Quote 3352by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Quote 3685by Anonymous on 09/02/2011
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Quote 3753by Anonymous on 09/02/2011
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Quote 4197by Anonymous on 16/02/2011
A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.
Quote 4229by Anonymous on 18/02/2011
A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.
Quote 4331by Anonymous on 20/02/2011
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
Quote 4477by Anonymous on 22/02/2011
Errors of haste are seldom committed singly. The first time a man always does too much. And precisely on that account he commits a second error, and then he does too little.
Quote 4591by Anonymous on 24/02/2011
Gaze long into the abyss, and the abyss gazes into you.
Quote 4600by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of Creation.
Quote 4983by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
Quote 5147by Anonymous on 25/05/2011
In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Quote 5391by Anonymous on 26/06/2011
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
Quote 5395by Anonymous on 26/06/2011
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Quote 5472by Anonymous on 05/07/2011
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Quote 5571by Anonymous on 19/07/2011
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Quote 5844by Anonymous on 30/08/2011
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Quote 5887by Anonymous on 03/09/2011
Christianity is called the religion of pity.
Quote 5994by Anonymous on 11/09/2011
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Quote 6202by Anonymous on 16/09/2011
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
Quote 6381by Anonymous on 19/09/2011
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Quote 7029by Anonymous on 17/10/2011
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
Quote 7052by Anonymous on 18/10/2011
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Quote 7116by Anonymous on 22/10/2011
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Quote 7145by Anonymous on 25/10/2011
I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
Quote 7190by Anonymous on 27/10/2011
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.
Quote 7500by Anonymous on 05/12/2011
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Quote 7824by Anonymous on 20/02/2012
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Quote 9363by Anonymous on 18/07/2012
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Quote 9670by Anonymous on 14/08/2012
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Quote 9803by Anonymous on 24/08/2012
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Quote 11190by Anonymous on 01/12/2012
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Quote 11786by Anonymous on 22/01/2013
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Quote 12116by Anonymous on 02/03/2013
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Quote 12129by Anonymous on 07/03/2013
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
Quote 12484by Anonymous on 21/04/2013
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Quote 12562by Anonymous on 29/04/2013
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Quote 12771by Anonymous on 18/05/2013
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Quote 13403by Anonymous on 20/07/2013
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Quote 13652by Anonymous on 16/08/2013
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
Quote 13668by Anonymous on 18/08/2013
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Quote 13689by Anonymous on 22/08/2013
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Quote 13721by Anonymous on 27/08/2013
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
Quote 13831by Anonymous on 08/09/2013
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
Quote 13888by Anonymous on 15/09/2013
Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has a solution. Every solution has side effects.
