Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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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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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.
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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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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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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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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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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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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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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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The free man is a warrior.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.
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Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
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The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.