Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
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There's no defense against stupidity.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
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Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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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.
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I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.