Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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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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Every past is worth condemning.
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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
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Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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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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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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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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Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
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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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Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
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Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
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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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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.