Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
(Ecce Homo, Foreword)

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
(The Antichrist, section 16)

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
(The Antichrist, section 2)

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.
(The Dawn, Sec. 297)

God is dead.
(The Gay Science, section 108)

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
(The Gay Science, section 116

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
(The Gay Science, section 130

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
(The Gay Science, section 158)

We are always in our own company.
(The Gay Science, section 166)

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
(The Gay Science, section 191)

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
(The Gay Science, section 283)

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
(The Gay Science, section 381)

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
(The Gay Science, section 41)

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
(The Twilight of the Idols ,1899)

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
(Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
(Twilight of the Idols, 1888)

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?
(Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows)

Plato is boring.
(Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients)