Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
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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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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.
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There's no defense against stupidity.
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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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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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Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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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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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
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Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?
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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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One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.
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The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who 'reduced to absurdity' 'the wisdom of this world' (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish.
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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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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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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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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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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.