Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”

“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”

“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”

“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”

“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”

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

“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.”