Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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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.
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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
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I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.
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Es sind im asketischen Ideale so viele Brücken zur Unabhängigkeit angezeigt, dass ein Philosoph nicht ohne ein innerliches Frohlocken und Händeklatschen die Geschichte aller jener Entschlossnen zu hören vermag, welche eines Tages Nein sagten zu aller Unfreiheit und in irgend eine Wüste giengen.
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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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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
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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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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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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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Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?
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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people - the ancient Greeks, for instance - more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.