Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.
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I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
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Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.
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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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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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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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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 most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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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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He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap.
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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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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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
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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.