It took just such evil and painful things for the great…

“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or saddled them…

— Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

— Karl Jaspers

“The phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a “teacher of…

— Anonymous

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Nietzsche is dead.

— GOD

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

— Bobby Fischer

“We believe, as Nietzsche put it, that 'higher is not allowed to grow out of the lower, is not allowed to have grown at…

— Alain de Botton

“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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the second Unzeitgemäße Betrachtung Nietzsche speaks about “individuals who form a kind of bridge over the wild stream of becoming” and live in…

— Heinrich Meier

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

— Charlize Theron

Nietzsche famously said, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' What he failed to stress is that it ALMOST kills you.

— Conan O'Brien

[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.

— Elie Wiesel

“Since I was in flight from religion, I assumed that my classmates had to be in flight from religion too, albeit in a quieter,…

— J.M. Coetzee

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that…

— Philip Kitcher