Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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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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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself.
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.
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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
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The noble soul reveres itself.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.