Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes

"Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule."

"Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk."

"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."

"All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue."

"He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."

"''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie."

"So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another."

"Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?"

"Vanity is the polite mask of pride."

"From what you would know and measure, you must take leave, at least for a time. Only after having left town, you see how high its towers rise above the houses ."

"One should never know too precisely whom one has married"

"Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life."

"Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say ''thus it shall be!'', it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past -- they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Their ''knowing'' is creating, their creating is a law giving, their will to truth is -- will to power. Are their such philosophers today? Have there been such philosophers? Must there not be such philosophers?"