Quotations of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
German philosopher

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~"On Reading and Writing"

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?