Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
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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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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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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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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.
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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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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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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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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
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Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.