Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...
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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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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
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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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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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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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There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
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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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The Gay Science, section 108.
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Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.
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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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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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Convictions are prisons.