Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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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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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
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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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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
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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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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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It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.