Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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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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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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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 golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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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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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.