Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.
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Natürlicher ist unsere Stellung in politicis: wir sehen Probleme der Macht, des Quantums Macht gegen ein anderes Quantum. Wir glauben nicht an ein Recht, das nicht auf der Macht ruht, sich durchzusetzen: wir empfinden alle Rechte als Eroberungen.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
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The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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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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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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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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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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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.