Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.
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The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
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We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.
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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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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
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Das Christenthum ist eine Metaphysik des Henkers...
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Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
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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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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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"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as 'a tree as it ought to be.'
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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.