Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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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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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.
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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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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
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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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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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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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Hat man sein warum? des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem wie?
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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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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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At heart I am a warrior.
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The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.
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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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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!