Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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All great men are play actors of their own ideal.
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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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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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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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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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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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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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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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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
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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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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.