Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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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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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
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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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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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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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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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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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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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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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Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).
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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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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.