Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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Love is more afraid of change than destruction.
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.
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The free man is a warrior.
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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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.
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'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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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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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
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The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide ...
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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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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.
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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as 'a tree as it ought to be.'
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.