Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
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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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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
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The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.
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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
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Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
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Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
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Eigene Meinungen. - Die erste Meinung, welche uns einfällt, wenn wir plötzlich über eine Sache befragt werden, ist gewöhnlich nicht unsere eigene, sondern nur die landläufige, unserer Kaste, Stellung, Abkunft zugehörige; die eigenen Meinungen schwimmen selten oben auf.
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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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.