Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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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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They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
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Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.
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He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
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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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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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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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Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.
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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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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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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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Man must become better and more evil.
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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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Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.
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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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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
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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.