Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
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Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.
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Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.
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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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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.
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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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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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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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Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
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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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Beware of spitting against the wind!
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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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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.