Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.
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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 you know the why, you can live any how.
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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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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.
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It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
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I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.
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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
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We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.