Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.
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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
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Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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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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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.
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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
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To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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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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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.