Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.
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Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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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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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
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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 golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.
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What is the strongest cure?--Victory.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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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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He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.
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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.