Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'.
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.
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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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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
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One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
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We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.
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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
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We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.
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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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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.