Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!
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And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?
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When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
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Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!
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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
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Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.
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Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
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We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.
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Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.