Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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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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The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.
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It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
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But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.
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A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.
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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead.
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Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
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The English are the people of consummate cant.
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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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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
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Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.