Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 3

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Plato was a bore.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.