Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.
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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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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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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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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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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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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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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
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I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
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An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.
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Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.
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And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
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What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?