Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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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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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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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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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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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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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.
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You shall become the person you are.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
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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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Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
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The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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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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He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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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.