Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

National differences consist, far more than has hitherto been observed, only in the differences of various grades of culture, and are only to a very small extent permanent (and not even that in a strict sense).

Has a woman who knew she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Master morality and slave morality.

Through bad female cooks-through the entire lack of reason in the kitchen-the development of mankind has been longest retarded and most interfered with.

Moral judgement and condemnation is the favourite form of revenge of the spiritually limited on those who are less so.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort across many a bad night.

Everything profound loves the mask.

It [philosophy] always creates the world in its own image, it cannot do otherwise; philosophy is this tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, to ‘creation of the world’.

It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy has hitherto been: a confession on the part of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Granted we want truth: why not rather untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance?

You are going to women? Do not forget the whip!

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.!

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Superman-a rope over an abyss.