Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!
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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.
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Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
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There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.
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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.