Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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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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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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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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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
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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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The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.
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Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
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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.