Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
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No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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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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The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
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For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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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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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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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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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
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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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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.