Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
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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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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!