Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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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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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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That every will must consider every other will its equal - would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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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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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
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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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The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
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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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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.