Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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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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Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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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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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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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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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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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people - the ancient Greeks, for instance - more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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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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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...