Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.
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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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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
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Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker’s sense of satisfaction with his small existence–who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of 'equal' rights.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
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Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.
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All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
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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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Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.
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The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.
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I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.
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If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.
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Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.