Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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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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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
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Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.
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After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.
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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
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The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.
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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.
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A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!