Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.
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Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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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 Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
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When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.
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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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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
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There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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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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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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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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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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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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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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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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Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.