Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.
When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.
We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.
Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.
I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.