Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
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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.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.
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In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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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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Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.
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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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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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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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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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One should steal only where one cannot rob.
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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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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.