Shocking Sayings
1,935 sayings found from the Modern era
You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests.
In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow.
Love to one only is a barbarity, for it is exercised at the expense of all others. Love to God also!
There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.
It is inhuman to bless when one is being cursed.
Whatever is profound loves masks.
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their ruin: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments.
I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit.
We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers.
Man is the cruelest animal.
All psychology hitherto has remained stuck in moral prejudices and fears; it has not dared to descend into the depths.
The will to overcome an emotion is ultimately only the will of another emotion or of several other emotions.