Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!
A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.