Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
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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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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
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One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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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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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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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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Liberalismus: auf deutsch Heerden-Verthierung ...
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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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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 lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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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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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
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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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Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen können.
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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.