Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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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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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
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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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Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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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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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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We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
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Faith is the path of least resistance.
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Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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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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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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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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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.