Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.
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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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Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest.
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
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Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.
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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! … Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
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The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
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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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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.
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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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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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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal.
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Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.