Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!
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To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his 'prelude.'
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The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
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Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
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I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
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Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking.
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The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
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The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
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Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
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The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
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Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.
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Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
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The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
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Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
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The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
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Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.