Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
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As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
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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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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.
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Man is the cruelest animal.
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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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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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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his 'prelude.'
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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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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.