Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
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The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'