Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
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We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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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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At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.
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All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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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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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
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Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
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Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.