Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
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Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
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The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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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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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.
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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.