Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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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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Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
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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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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.
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I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.
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Art is the proper task of life.
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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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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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
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Der philosophische Mensch hat sogar das Vorgefühl, dass auch unter dieser Wirklichkeit, in der wir leben und sind, eine zweite ganz andre verborgen liege...
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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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Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead.
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When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.