Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
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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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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.
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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.
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I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
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There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.