Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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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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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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Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.
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A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.
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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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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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Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.