Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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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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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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Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
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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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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
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Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
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Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
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“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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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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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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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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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
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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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Your educators can only be your liberators.