Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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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 lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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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 coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
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The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
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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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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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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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Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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Glaubt es mir! – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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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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Liberalismus: auf deutsch Heerden-Verthierung ...
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One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
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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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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'