- "In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose."
- "Women are considered deep. Why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
- "Go up close to your friends but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our friend."
- "Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."
- "He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."
- "God is dead."
- "When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenient he causes us very much against him."
- "All that is rare is for the rare."
- "Every world is a prejudice."
- "Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
- "Disobedience is the nobility of slaves."
- "Swallow your poison, for you need it badly."
- "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
- "He who does not lie not know what truth is."
- "Truth as circe - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?"
- "In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play."
- "People have always wanted to "improve" human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality."
- "There is no defense against stupidity."
- "Philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness."
- "We have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."
- "Resentment, born of weakness, harms no one more than the weak person himself."
- "All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to fake learnedness."
- "They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves."
- "You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love and for that you have to drink the bitter cup of your own love."
- "Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come."
- "The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."
- "What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is the nature virtue, this is the human madness."
- "Life is a journey so everyone is a tourist."
- "Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you."
- "Men need play and danger. Civilization gives them work and safety."
- "How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good things"?
- "Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher and poet