Shocking Sayings
1,935 sayings found from the Modern era
I shall soon be compelled to undertake the conduct of the Prussian Government. My first care will be to reorganise the army, with or without the help of the Landtag. ... As soon as the army shall have been brought into such a condition as to inspire …
I grant that I am full of prejudices; I sucked them in with my mother's milk, and I cannot possibly argue them away.
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.
A good horse dies in its harness.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world, and the fear of God is what makes us love and foster peace.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Thou goest to women? Do not forget thy whip!
And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. 'Good' is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a 'common good'! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it mus…
Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity – an idiosyncrasy of degenerates which has caused immeasurab…
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.
Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.