Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the virtualization of cruelty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse. Such beings maintain themselves best when they insert themselves in an alien organism; if they do not succeed they become vexed, irritated, and eat themselves up.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of culture, which has no way of grasping why they really suffer, or what they lack in life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men-yes, and then to get around them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you yourselves are, and must be?

— Friedrich Nietzsche