Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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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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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
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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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I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
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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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Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.
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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
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If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
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From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
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Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
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...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.