Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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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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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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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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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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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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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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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.
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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 casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.