If you remember back to your college philosophy course, you might recall the name Friedrich Nietzsche. He was a German philosopher who was not afraid to question everything you believe in. Because he writes in aphorisms, his remarks are often pithy, concise, and incisive. He once stated, “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
Even today, his writings remain disputed. They question the status quo and make you uncomfortable. Here are 40 quotes from the man himself. Some you might agree with, but I guarantee you will disagree with many as well. If you don’t like having your beliefs challenged, Nietzsche is a philosopher to avoid. However, if you are open-minded enough to understand his perspectives, you will have an opportunity to grow stronger in your own convictions. If any of these quotes are unsettling, ask yourself why.
We should consider every day lost on which we have no danced at least once.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart- not something that comes upon the earth or after death.
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
He that humbles himself wishes to be exalted.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Morality is but the herd-instinct in the individual.
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
No victor believes in chance.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The most common lie is that which one tells himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
I counsel you, my friends: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, is what makes someone a friend.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
God is dead.
Success has always been a great liar.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
What do you regard as most human? To spare someone shame.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Fear is the mother of morality.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
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