Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
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Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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This world is the will to power and nothing besides!
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Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
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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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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
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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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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
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He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
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The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
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When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
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Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.
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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
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Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.