Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of 'aristocrats of the spirit,' reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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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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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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The doer alone learneth.
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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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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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
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Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
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Thoughts in a poem. The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.