Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

How much beer is in German intelligence?

I am no man, I am dynamite.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Remain true to the earth.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.