Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
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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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It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
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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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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
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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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It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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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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Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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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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My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.