In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. – Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. – Friedrich Nietzsche
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book. – Friedrich Nietzsche
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. – Friedrich Nietzsche
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane. – Friedrich Nietzsche