Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.
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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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Being silent is something one completely unlearns if, like him, one has been for so long a solitary mole - - -
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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
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One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
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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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But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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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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It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.