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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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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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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One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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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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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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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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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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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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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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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
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Some men are born posthumously.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.