Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
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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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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
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Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.
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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.
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A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.
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Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.
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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
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Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.