Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are people who want to make men’s 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
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else! – Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche