Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
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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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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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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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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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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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Pity makes suffering contagious.
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Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
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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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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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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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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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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 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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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 true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
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In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
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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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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.