Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
-
One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
-
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.
-
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
-
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
-
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?
-
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
-
It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
-
When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
-
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
-
My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.
-
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
-
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
-
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
-
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.
-
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
-
The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.
-
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him 'better.'
-
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!