Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.
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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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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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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
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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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There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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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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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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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
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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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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
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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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When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
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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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Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.