Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!
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Become who you are. Make what only you can make.
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I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!
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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.
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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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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.
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Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
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When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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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.