Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
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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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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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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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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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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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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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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.
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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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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.
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.