Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.
Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.