Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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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 machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
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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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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
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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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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
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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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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.
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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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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.