Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.
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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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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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All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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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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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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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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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people - the ancient Greeks, for instance - more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.