Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
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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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In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
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Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
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Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it-so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
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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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Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.
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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
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Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.