Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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Everything good, fine or great they do is first of all an argument against the skeptic inside them.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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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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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
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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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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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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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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.