Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
-
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.
-
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
-
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
-
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
-
We can destroy only as creators.
-
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
-
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
-
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
-
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
-
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
-
Woman was God's second mistake.
-
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
-
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
-
Only ideas won by walking have any value.
-
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
-
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
-
The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
-
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.
-
With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
-
Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
-
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
-
What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
-
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
-
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.