Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
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Eins ist not. - Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'.
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There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
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The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
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There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
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School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
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Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.
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Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.
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Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.