Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

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.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

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

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
("On Reading and Writing")

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
(Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29)

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
(Beyond Good and Evil)

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.
(Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146)

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
(Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153)

Only sick music makes money today.
(Der Fall Wagner, Section 5)