--- title: "12 Devil Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "12 Devil quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Devil sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_devil_everything-good-is-the-transmutation-of_2823923.jpg" --- > [Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/everything-good-is-the-transmutation-of-something-evil-every-god-has/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_devil_everything-good-is-the-transmutation-of_2823923.jpg) > [And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/and-i-offer-you-this-parable-not-a-few-who-sought-to-cast-out-their/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/friedrich-nietzsche-15_casts_and-i-offer-you-this-parable-not-a-few-w_1329718.jpg) > [Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/has-there-ever-been-anything-filthier-on-earth-than-the-saints-in-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfd/friedrich-nietzsche-15_devil_has-there-ever-been-anything-filthier-on_1976643.jpg) > [The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-devil-has-the-broadest-perspectives-for-god-therefore-he-keeps-so/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/170/friedrich-nietzsche-15_ancient_the-devil-has-the-broadest-perspectives_1391150.jpg) > [If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/if-the-all-powerful-god-controls-satan-he-is-an-accomplice-and-if-he/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_accomplices_if-the-all-powerful-god-controls-satan-h_728048.jpg) > [You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/you-highest-men-whom-i-have-ever-seen-this-is-my-suspicion-about-you/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_devil_you-highest-men-whom-i-have-ever-seen-th_3157201.jpg) > [Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/do-not-paint-a-picture-either-of-god-or-the-devil-on-your-walls-this/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_artist_do-not-paint-a-picture-either-of-god-or_2420311.jpg) > [I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-would-only-believe-in-a-god-who-could-dance-and-when-i-saw-my-devil/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/736/friedrich-nietzsche-15_all-things_i-would-only-believe-in-a-god-who-could_77128.jpg) > [It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-was-christianity-which-first-painted-the-devil-on-the-worlds-walls/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b35/friedrich-nietzsche-15_atheism_it-was-christianity-which-first-painted_1344969.jpg) > [When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/when-i-was-twelve-years-old-i-thought-up-an-odd-trinity-namely-god/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/friedrich-nietzsche-15_able_when-i-was-twelve-years-old-i-thought-up_224842.jpg) > [“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/alas-where-in-the-world-have-there-been-greater-follies-than-with-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e18/friedrich-nietzsche-15_compassion_alas-where-in-the-world-have-there-been_2143874.jpg) > [But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/but-the-worst-enemy-you-can-meet-will-always-be-yourself-you-lie-in/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/579/friedrich-nietzsche-15_always-be-yourself_but-the-worst-enemy-you-can-meet-will-al_1892490.jpg) ## Other authors on Devil - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-martin-luther-64750.jpg) Martin Luther 77 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/martin-luther/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 47 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joyce-meyer-53800.jpg) Joyce Meyer 27 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/joyce-meyer/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 24 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/charles-spurgeon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-malcolm-x-62876.jpg) Malcolm X 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/malcolm-x/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anne-rice-13836.jpg) Anne Rice 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/anne-rice/) - [C. S. Lewis 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/c-s-lewis/) - [Michael Bassey Johnson 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/michael-bassey-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-francis-75890.jpg) Pope Francis 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/pope-francis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-ezra-taft-benson-34453.jpg) Ezra Taft Benson 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/ezra-taft-benson/) ## More by Friedrich Nietzsche > [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devil/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "12 Devil Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/everything-good-is-the-transmutation-of-something-evil-every-god-has/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_devil_everything-good-is-the-transmutation-of_2823923.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_devil_everything-good-is-the-transmutation-of_2823923.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_devil_everything-good-is-the-transmutation-of_2823923.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/and-i-offer-you-this-parable-not-a-few-who-sought-to-cast-out-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/friedrich-nietzsche-15_casts_and-i-offer-you-this-parable-not-a-few-w_1329718.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/friedrich-nietzsche-15_casts_and-i-offer-you-this-parable-not-a-few-w_1329718.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/407/friedrich-nietzsche-15_casts_and-i-offer-you-this-parable-not-a-few-w_1329718.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? 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