Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no facts, only interpretations.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Every past is worth condemning.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
– Friedrich Nietzsche