Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.
A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today
Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
