Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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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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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
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The noble soul reveres itself.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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...to the priestly class - decadence is no more than a means to an end. Men of this sort have a vital interest in making mankind sick, and in confusing the values of 'good' and 'bad,' 'true' and 'false' in a manner that is not only dangerous to life, but also slanders it.
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Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead.
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I am one thing, my writings are another.
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches - and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?
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One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.