Friedrich Nietzsche May Quotations

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight....

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.