“Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth -- her great art is the lie,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For all the value that the true, the truthful, the selfless may deserve, it would still be possible that a higher and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another . . . I dream of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what truthfulness is. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
