Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
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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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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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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
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I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
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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.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.
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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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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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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 "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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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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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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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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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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I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.