Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
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The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.
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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 highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
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I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.
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Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.-Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.
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Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
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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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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.
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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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How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!
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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
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The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
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We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!