Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
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All truths are bloody truths to me.
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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Niemand kann dir die Brücke bauen, auf der gerade du über den Fluß des Lebens schreiten mußt, niemand außer dir allein.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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No victor believes in chance.
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When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
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I tell the story of these philosophers in simplified form: I merely wish to bring out in each system that point which represents a piece of the personality, and which history must preserve as a part of what is irrefutable and indisputable.
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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.
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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
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One must be born to any superior world — to make it plainer, one must be bred for it. One has a right to philosophy (taking the word in its greatest sense) only by virtue of one's breeding; one's ancestors, one's "blood," decides this, too. Many generations must have worked on the origin of a philosopher; each one of his virtues must have been separately earned, cared for, passed on, and embodied.
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Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!
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A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.