Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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I and me are always too deeply in conversation.
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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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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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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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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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
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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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What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.