Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
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Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.
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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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When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
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The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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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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It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.