Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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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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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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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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The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.
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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
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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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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.