Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.
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Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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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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All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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The noble soul reveres itself.
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
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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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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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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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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
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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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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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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.