Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.
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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.
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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
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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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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!
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No one is such a liar as the indignant man.
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Das Christenthum ist eine Metaphysik des Henkers...
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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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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.