Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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A Path to Equality. - A few hours of mountain climbing turn a rascal and a saint into two pretty similar creatures. Fatigue is the shortest way to Equality and Fraternity-and, in the end, Liberty will surrender to Sleep.
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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
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Aus der Erfahrung. - Die Unvernunft einer Sache ist kein Grund gegen ihr Dasein, vielmehr eine Bedingung desselben.
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
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Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.
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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.
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I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.
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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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I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
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But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.
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Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.
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Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.