Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
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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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Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.
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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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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
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He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.
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The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
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All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
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Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
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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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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.