A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much longer thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

— Friedrich Nietzsche