Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The beast in us must be wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.
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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
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Where could we find an instance of cultural pathology which philosophy restored to health? If philosophy ever manifested itself as helpful, redeeming, or prophylactic, it was in a healthy culture. The sick, it made even sicker.
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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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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.
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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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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
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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 object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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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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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.