Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.