Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.
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Without passions you have no experience whatever.
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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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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.
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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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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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About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
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But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
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In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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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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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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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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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
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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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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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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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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.