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 possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.
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The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
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Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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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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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.
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We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.
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An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.
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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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Life without music is no life at all.
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The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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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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What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.
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Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche.
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.