Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
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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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Convictions are prisons.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?
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Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
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There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
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Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.
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If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
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The concept of greatness is changeable, in the realm of morality as well as in that of esthetics. And so philosophy starts by legislating greatness.