Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.
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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
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Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.
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It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.
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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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We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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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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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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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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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
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Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
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When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.
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Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.