Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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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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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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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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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
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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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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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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.
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If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
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It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
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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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Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.
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Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.