Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
-
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
-
There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
-
He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)
-
The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
-
Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.
-
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
-
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
-
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
-
The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
-
The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.
-
I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
-
The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
-
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
-
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
-
But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!
-
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
-
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.
-
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.
-
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.
-
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.
-
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
-
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.
-
There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. When one speaks of 'aristocrats of the spirit,' reasons are usually not lacking for concealing something. As is well known, it is a favorite term among ambitious Jews. For spirit alone does not make noble. Rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What then is required? Blood.