Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,You give away yourself,You don't take care of yourself, you don't love yourself;Great agony always compels you,The agony of an overflowing barn, an overabundant heart;But no one thanks you any longer …
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
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Truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.
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The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.