Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
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The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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One should steal only where one cannot rob.
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
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You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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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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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.