Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
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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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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 more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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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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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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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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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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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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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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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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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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Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
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Your educators can only be your liberators.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".