Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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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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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
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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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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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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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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
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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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What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.
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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
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In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
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It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.
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Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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The free man is a warrior.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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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.