Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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The noble soul reveres itself.
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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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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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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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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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
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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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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...
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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.