Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is 'outside,' what is 'different,' what is 'not itself'; and this No is its creative deed.
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
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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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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
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At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
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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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Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
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The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.
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There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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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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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.
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There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.
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The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.