Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
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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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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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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
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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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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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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.
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You sacrifice yourself, your wealth torments you,You give away yourself,You don't take care of yourself, you don't love yourself;Great agony always compels you,The agony of an overflowing barn, an overabundant heart;But no one thanks you any longer …
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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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Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
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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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Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
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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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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to 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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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
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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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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.
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Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.
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Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.