Friedrich Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right – especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

Friedrich Nietzsche