Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
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One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
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As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
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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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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
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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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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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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.