Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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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The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.
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He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
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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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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.
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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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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
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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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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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But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".
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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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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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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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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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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!
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Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.
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A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.