Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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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 would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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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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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
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However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.
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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 wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.