Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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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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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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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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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
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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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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!