Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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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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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
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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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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
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Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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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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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
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One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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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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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
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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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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
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Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
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Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.
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In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.
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Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!
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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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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.