Nietzsche Quotes
Nietzsche Quote of the day
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.
I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?
But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.
All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things.
It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.
A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79
The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.
Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes
As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.
Youth is an unpleasant period
If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions
Moderation sees itself as beautiful
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
Master morality is a "yea-saying" attitude where "good" and "bad" are equivalent to "noble" and "despicable" respectively.
They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.
And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at the bottom of their souls