Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.
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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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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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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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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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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.
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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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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.
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A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
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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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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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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
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Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
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It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
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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!