Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Idleness is the parent of psychology. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space — how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! – Friedrich Nietzsche
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. – Friedrich Nietzsche
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil men have no songs. How is it that the Russians have songs? – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are people who want to make mens lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman was Gods second mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A subject for a great poet would be Gods boredom after the seventh day of creation. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Is man one of Gods blunders? Or is God one of mans blunders? – Friedrich Nietzsche
