Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
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How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.
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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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Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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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 only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
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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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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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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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Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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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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Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.
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I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.
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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
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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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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).