Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
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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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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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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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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
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Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
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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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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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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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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.