Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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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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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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Faith is the path of least resistance.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
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"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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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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What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons.
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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
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A vocation is the backbone of life.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.