Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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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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No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
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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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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 we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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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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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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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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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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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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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
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When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.
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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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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy.
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?