Quotations of selected author

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


1. "Woman was God's second mistake."

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Woman and Man


2. "Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

categories: Wit and Humor


3. "When you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you."

source: "Beyond Good and Evil"

categories: Various -:- Good and Evil


4. "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

source: "Beyond Good and Evil"

categories: Love -:- Good and Evil


5. "To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."

categories: Friendship and Hostility


6. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

source: "On Reading and Writing"

categories: Love -:- Normality and Madness


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

categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Talent and Genius


8. "The increase in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decrease in bile."

categories: Wisdom and Stupidity



9. "The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."

categories: History and Nations -:- Peace and War


10. "The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous."

categories: Beauty and Ugliness


11. "The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."

categories: Envy -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia


12. "The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god."

source: "Beyond Good and Evil"

categories: Human


13. "The advantage of having a bad memory is that you can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times."

categories: Memory


14. "Nobody dies of fatal truths these days: there are too many antidotes."

categories: Truth and Falsity


15. "In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum."

categories: Manners and Ethics


16. "If married couples did not live together good marriages would be more common."

categories: Marriage


17. "Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it."

source: "Beyond Good and Evil"

categories: Talent and Genius


18. "Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?"

categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human -:- Truth and Falsity


19. "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

categories: Truth and Falsity



20. "Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is."

categories: Bravery and Fear