Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
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Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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Die mutter der Ausschweifung ist nicht die Freude, sondern die Freudlosigkeit.1
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My genius is in my nostrils.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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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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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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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
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Christianity is Platonism for the people.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
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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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But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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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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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.