Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
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Energy wasted on negative ends.
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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Love is blind, friends close their eyes.
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.