Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
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One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.
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In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
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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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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
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One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power-assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time - in the form of legislation and customs.
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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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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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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.