Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."
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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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It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.
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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
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A life without music is an error.
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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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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.