Friedrich Nietzsche | Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche | Insanity is a rare thing in individuals
"Insanity is a rare thing in individuals, but the rule in groups, parties, peoples and times."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche | for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been — truth alone.
"for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been—truth alone."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system
"We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche | the advent of nihilism
"What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism […] For some time now, our whole European culture has been moving with a tortured tension that is growing from decade to decade, as toward a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, headlong, like a river that wants to reach the end, that no longer reflects, that is afraid to reflect."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche | A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche | The State is the coldest of all cold monster
"The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche | But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil
"But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen."
Friedrich Nietzsche
