Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
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Diesen Ernsthaften diene zur Belehrung, dass ich von der Kunst als der höchsten Aufgabe und der eigentlich metaphysischen Thätigkeit dieses Lebens im Sinne des Mannes überzeugt bin, dem ich hier, als meinem erhabenen Vorkämpfer auf dieser Bahn, diese Schrift gewidmet haben will.
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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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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Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.
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They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
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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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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
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Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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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.
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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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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Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.
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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
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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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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
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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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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].