May Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche