Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.
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I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
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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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Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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The doer alone learneth.
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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 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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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.
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A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.
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The noble soul reveres itself.
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
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What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.
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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.