Nietzsche-Zitate: 97 seiner klügsten Aussagen

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of Being. Everything dies, everything blooms again; eternally runs the year of Being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally is built the same house of Being. Everything separates, everything greets itself again; eternally true to itself remains the ring of Being.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

All things that endure for a long time are little by little permeated by reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

‎The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

It is hard to live with human beings because being silent is so hard.

Evil men have no songs. How is it that the Russians have songs?

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.