Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

The lie is a condition of life.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.