Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: 'Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.'
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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We ought to face our destiny with courage.
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What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
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The pure soul is a pure lie.
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I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.
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The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
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The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
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I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.
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Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.
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"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
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He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.
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Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
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Ziel und Wege. - Viele sind hartnäckig in Bezug auf den einmal eingeschlagenen Weg, Wenige in Bezug auf das Ziel.