Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves.
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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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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
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You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.
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Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
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To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
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We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.
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My task is to throw a light on that which we must always love and revere, of which no subsequent knowledge can rob us: man in his greatness.
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Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
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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 secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
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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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Your educators can only be your liberators.
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The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.
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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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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.