Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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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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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 real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
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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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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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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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Das Christenthum ist eine Metaphysik des Henkers...
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When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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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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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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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?
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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.
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Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.