Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
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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 drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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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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Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is 'outside,' what is 'different,' what is 'not itself'; and this No is its creative deed.
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One should steal only where one cannot rob.
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A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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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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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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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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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.