Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
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Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
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Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
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Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
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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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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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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
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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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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
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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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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
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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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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.