Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Die Leugner des Zufalls. - 'Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.'
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Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.
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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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The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.
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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.
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Das Empörende an einer individuellen Lebensart. - Alle sehr individuellen Maassregeln des Lebens bringen die Menschen gegen Den, der sie ergreift, auf; sie fühlen sich durch die aussergewöhnliche Behandlung, welche jener sich angedeihen lässt, erniedrigt, als gewöhnliche Wesen.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
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If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
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He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
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In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people’.
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The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.
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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
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The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.
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Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.
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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much .
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
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Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.
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We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.