Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
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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.
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What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.
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In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.
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What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them - neither has a pleasant smell.
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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.
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No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
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What is it that you love in others? – My hopes.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
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What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.