Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
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Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.
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He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.
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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon 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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Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.
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We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for. In all talk there is a grain of contempt.
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Liberalismus: auf deutsch Heerden-Verthierung ...
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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Some men are born posthumously.
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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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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.
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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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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.