Friedrich Nietzsche on truth

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Friedrich Nietzsche: "There are two different types of people in the world"

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

 ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzche on purpose

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

~ Friedrich Nietzche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche on the state and its lies

The state lies in all the tongues of good and evil, and whatever it says is lies, and whatever it has, it has stolen, everything it is, is false, it bites with stolen teeth, and it bites often, it is false down to its bowels.

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra [1896]

Nietzsche on crowd behavior

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche