Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.
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What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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Love as a passion – it is our European specialty – must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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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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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
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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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Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it-so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.
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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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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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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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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.
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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.