Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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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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Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?
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I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.
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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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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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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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From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.
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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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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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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.