Friedrich Nietzsche | Quotes Collection

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Insanity is a rare thing in individuals, but the rule in groups, parties, peoples and times." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"They muddy the water to make it appear deep" Friedrich Nietzsche

"Another century of newspapers and all words will stink." Friedrich Nietzsche

"It has so far always been only the truth that was forbidden." Friedrich Nietzsche

"We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels." Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal." Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

"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

"Most people do not seek truth. They seek comfort in illusions." Friedrich Nietzsche