Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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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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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
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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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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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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 am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
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The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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The beast in us must be wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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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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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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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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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.