Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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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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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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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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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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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.
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Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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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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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!
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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".