Friedrich Nietzsche quotes

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty — I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.