Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.
He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.
The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.
How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.
The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.
Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!