Wisdom Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Where the populace eat and drink, and even where they reverence, it is accustomed to stink.”

“Plato was a bore.”

“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.”

“Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.”

“No matter how strongly a thing may be believed, strength of belief is no criterion of truth.' But what is truth? Perhaps a kind of belief that has become a condition of life?”

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

“Isn’t it funny how we make rational excuses for being out of alignment?”

“We can no longer postpone the challenging question, How does one know that among the bedlam of voices which beset us all, one is really hearing his daimon? Inner 'voices'—experienced as actual or metaphorical ones—are notoriously untrustworthy; they can tell one anything. Many people hear voices, but there are few Joans of Arc. How about our schizophrenic patients who are instructed by their voices to bomb New York?”

“Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.”

“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.”

“I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world...”

“youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”