Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.
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For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
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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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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
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We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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Life without music is no life at all.
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
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Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle.