Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
A thing can only live through a pious illusion.
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.
We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!
But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?
Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.
Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
