Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
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The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
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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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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
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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 free man is a warrior.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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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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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.
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...to the priestly class - decadence is no more than a means to an end. Men of this sort have a vital interest in making mankind sick, and in confusing the values of 'good' and 'bad,' 'true' and 'false' in a manner that is not only dangerous to life, but also slanders it.
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Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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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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What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons.
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I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.
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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
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Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.