Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
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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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It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
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He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
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The Gay Science, section 108.
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much .
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That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.
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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?