Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

( Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality. )

1. We are always in our own company.
    
2. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
    
3. The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
    
4. Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
    
5. Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life.
    
6. One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
    
7. Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
    
8. Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
    
9. Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
    
10. The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart -- not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
     
11. 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.
     
12. The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding -- in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
     
13. Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed.
     
14. One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
     
15. He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
     
16. We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things — metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
     
17. We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.
     
18. The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
     
19. God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
     
20. 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 immortal blemish of mankind.
     
21. Some are born posthumously.
     
22. It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book — what everyone else does not say in a whole book.