Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
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The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
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Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
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A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
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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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Yes, life is a woman!
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The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
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What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.
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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.
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The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
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If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother – love there is a good deal of curiosity.
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In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
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Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.