Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."
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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
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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 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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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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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.
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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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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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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
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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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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.
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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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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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But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
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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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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest.
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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.