Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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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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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 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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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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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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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
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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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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is 'outside,' what is 'different,' what is 'not itself'; and this No is its creative deed.
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
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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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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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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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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.