Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…
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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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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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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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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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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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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?
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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
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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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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
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Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
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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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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.