Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.
I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.
Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.
The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.
Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
Convictions are prisons.
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.