Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Some men are born posthumously.
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The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
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The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
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A married philosopher belongs in comedy, that is my proposition-and as for that exception, Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.
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The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.
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Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
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Glaubt es mir! – das Geheimnis, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!
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To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.