Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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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Was sagt dein Gewissen? - 'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.
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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.
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Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
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Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!
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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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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!
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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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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.