Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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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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A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
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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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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
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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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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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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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And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
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The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
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I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
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He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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Unglück. - Die Auszeichnung, welche im Unglück liegt (als ob es ein Zeichen von Flachheit, Anspruchslosigkeit, Gewöhnlichkeit sei, sich glücklich zu fühlen), ist so gross, dass wenn Jemand Einem sagt: 'Aber wie glücklich Sie sind!' man gewöhnlich protestirt.
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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
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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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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.
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I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.