Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
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There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of 'aristocrats of the spirit,' reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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Convictions are prisons.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
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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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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.