Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.
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The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.
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As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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Was that life? Well then, once more!
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What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
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When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.