Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as 'a tree as it ought to be.'
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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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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
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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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That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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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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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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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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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
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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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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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Natürlicher ist unsere Stellung in politicis: wir sehen Probleme der Macht, des Quantums Macht gegen ein anderes Quantum. Wir glauben nicht an ein Recht, das nicht auf der Macht ruht, sich durchzusetzen: wir empfinden alle Rechte als Eroberungen.