Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
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Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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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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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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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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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without 'taste,' at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Philosophical thinking, on the other hand, is ever on the scent of those things which are most worth knowing, the great and the important insights.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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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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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!