Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth
We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.
It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.
There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!
There are so many futures still to dawn!
Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.
The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
Sleep knocks on my eyes: they grow heavy. Sleep touches my mouth: it stays open.Truly, he comes to me on soft soles, the dearest of thieves, and steals my thoughts from me
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.
He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.
No more the victory of spirit over matter and definitely not the victory of matter over spirit – the next stage is not one overcoming the other, but a merge.
The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.
My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!
He who doesn't know how to put his will into things at least puts a meaning into them: that is, he believes there is a will in them already.
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
When man no longer regards himself as evil he ceases to be so!
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood
But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them.
The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.
And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.
You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.
One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior
One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
I deny morality as I deny alchemy.
There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena
All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.
Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.
The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book – I call that viciousness!
Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.