Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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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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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
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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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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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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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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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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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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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If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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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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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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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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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
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The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.
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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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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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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.