Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), also known as Friedrich Nietzsche in short, was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist. His works have influenced modern intellectual history or the world.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Species do not evolve to perfection, but quite the contrary. The weak, in fact, always prevail over the strong, not only because they are in the majority, but also because they are the more crafty.

- The Twilight of the Idols

• Liberal institutions straightaway ceases from being liberal the moment they are soundly established.

- The Twilight of the Idols

• That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

- The Twilight of the Idols

• Every thing ponderous, viscous, and solemnly clumsy, all long-winded and boring types of style are developed in profuse variety among Germans.

- Beyond Good and Evil

• Morality in Europe today is herd morality.

- Beyond Good and Evil

• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

- Beyond Good and Evil

• It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

- Beyond Good and Evil

• The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

- Beyond Good and Evil

• God is dead: but considering the state of species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

- Die Frohliche Wissenschaft

• Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.

- Die Frohliche Wissenschaft

• Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated his doctrine if he had lived to my age.

- Thus Spake Zarathustra

• This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and to keep modest as a giver.

- Thus Spake Zarathustra

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

- Thus Spake Zarathustra

• I teach you the superman. Man is something to be surpassed.

- Thus Spake Zarathustra

• Nobody talks more passionately of his rights than he who, in the depths of his soul, is doubtful about them.

- Human, All Too Human

• Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

- Human, All Too Human

• Every word is a preconceived judgment.

- Human, All Too Human

• Great intellects are skeptical.

- The Antichrist

• Woman was God's second mistake.

- The Antichrist

• The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

- The Wanderer and His Shadow

• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

- Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions

Sophie Tolstoy