Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
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The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
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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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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
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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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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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I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.
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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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There's no defense against stupidity.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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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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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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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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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.
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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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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.