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

“...Originally everything about a Greek or Christian building meant something, and in reference to a higher order of things. This atmosphere of inexhaustible meaningfulness hung about the building like a magic veil. Beauty entered the system only secondarily, impairing the basic feeling of uncanny sublimity, of sanctification by magic or the gods' nearness. At the most, beauty tempered the”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“As we know, priests make the most evil enemies – but why? Because they are the most powerless. Out of this powerlessness, their hate swells into something huge and uncanny to a most intellectual and poisonous level. The greatest haters in world history, and the most intelligent, have always been priests: – nobody else’s intelligence stands a chance against the intelligence of priestly revenge. The history of mankind would be far too stupid a thing if it had not had the intellect of the powerless injected into it...”

“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”

“Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.”

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”

“Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.”

“It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.”

“I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire”

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”

“The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.”