Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back.
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'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.
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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
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I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.
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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
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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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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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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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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.