Friedrich Nietzsche/Quotes

""God Is Dead.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882

""Nietzsche is Dead.""

- God, 1900, as quoted by countless philosophy majors

""He who fights monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

""Above all else, my children, be hard. For what is done for love is beyond good and evil.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, telling people to live life by their own rules and nobody else's

""The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, railing against humanity's herd instincts

""The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding -- at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.""

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, referring to Jesus (who he saw as an example of The Ubermensch)

""You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.""

- Jeeves, Jeeves Takes Charge