Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.
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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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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
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I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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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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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
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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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The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.
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The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.