Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.
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Was that life? Well then, once more!
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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
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God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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One never perishes through anybody but oneself.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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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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Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
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New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.
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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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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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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.
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What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.