Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
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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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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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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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Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!
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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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Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!
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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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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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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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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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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 real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
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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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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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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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The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.
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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.