Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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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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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time - in the form of legislation and customs.
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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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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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
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What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
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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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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.