Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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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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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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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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The only thing of interest in a refuted system is the personal element. It alone is what is forever irrefutable.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.
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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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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
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Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
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But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?
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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.
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Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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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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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
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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.