Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.
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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
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All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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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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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
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Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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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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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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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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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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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
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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 higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.