Fear Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

We are all afraid of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He has heart who knows fear, but vanquishes it; who sees the abyss, but with pride. He who sees the abyss, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“let man fear woman when she loves. then she bears every sacrifice and every other thing she accounts valueless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche