Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.
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Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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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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Convictions are prisons.
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
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In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
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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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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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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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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
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Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.
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I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.
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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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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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Love as a passion – it is our European specialty – must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.