Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.