Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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.
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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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The beast in us must be wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
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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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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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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
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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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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
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So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
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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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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 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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[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.
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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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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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The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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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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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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Your educators can only be your liberators.