Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
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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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Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
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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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What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.
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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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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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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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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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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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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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Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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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.