Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.
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The good generally displeases us when it is beyond our ken.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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Every tradition grows ever more venerable - the more remote its origin, the more confused that origin is. The reverence due to it increases from generation to generation. The tradition finally becomes holy and inspires awe.
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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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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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.