Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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We want to be poets of our life - first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.
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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...
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What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
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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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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?
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The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.