Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.
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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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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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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.
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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
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Success has always been a great liar.
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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
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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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Eigene Meinungen. - Die erste Meinung, welche uns einfällt, wenn wir plötzlich über eine Sache befragt werden, ist gewöhnlich nicht unsere eigene, sondern nur die landläufige, unserer Kaste, Stellung, Abkunft zugehörige; die eigenen Meinungen schwimmen selten oben auf.
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In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
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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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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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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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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.