Friedrich Nietzsche Common Quotations

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.