Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.
He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!
Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Every past is worth condemning.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.